Re: qt4-x11-free dependence on gtk+

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Peter,

On Tuesday 27 August 2013 13:59:24 Peter A. Bigot wrote:
> Since "bitbake qt4-x11-free" failed for me until I did "bitbake gtk+",
> qt4-x11-free needs some sort of dependency on gtk+ to avoid the failure
> below.  I'm guessing it's something like the following added to
> qt4-x11-free.inc:
> 
> PACKAGECONFIG ??= "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'gtk', '',
> d)}"
> PACKAGECONFIG[gtk] = "-gtkstyle,-no-gtkstyle,gtk+"
> 
> but since it takes about an hour to build qt4-x11-free on my system I'm
> hoping somebody can tell me whether that's the right approach.

This seems reasonable to me. I can't actually reproduce the failure, but I can 
see how the dependency comes in and it does look to be on by default.

Looking at bitbake -g output (for master at least) it seems like gtk+3 will 
always be built by default when building qt4-x11-free because pulseaudio 
depends upon it, so that explains how this problem doesn't often come up. Of 
course if gtk+3 is rebuilding when qt4-x11-free is in do_compile, or you've 
disabled pulseaudio, then this issue will occur so we do need to do something 
such as the above. I think the PACKAGECONFIG option for this should be called 
"gtkstyle" rather than just "gtk" to give a better idea of what it's enabling 
though. Would you please send an actual patch to add this?

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre