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From: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
To: ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
Cc: "openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org"
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Why do we allow empty -dev/-dbg packages ?
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:45:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131231094559.GB3705@jama> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52C222A1.6030705@windriver.com>

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 09:49:21AM +0800, ChenQi wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This might be a dummy question, but it has been puzzling me for some 
> time. So if someone could give me some explanation, that would be really 
> appreciated.
> 
> In bitbake.conf, we have:
> ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dev = "1"
> ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dbg = "1"
> 
> That means we allow emtpy -dev/-dbg packages. But what are the benefits 
> of these empty -dev/-dbg packages?

In some cases it's useful to satisfy default dependcencies:
bitbake.conf:RDEPENDS_${PN}-staticdev = "${PN}-dev (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"

and -dev needs ${PN} even when it's empty in some recipes where all
files are split into separate packages
bitbake.conf:RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "${PN} (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"

Not sure about -dbg one.

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-31  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-31  1:49 Why do we allow empty -dev/-dbg packages ? ChenQi
2013-12-31  9:45 ` Martin Jansa [this message]
2014-01-02  6:59   ` ChenQi

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