Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v3 2/3] binutils-cross-canadian: add gprofng package as runtime dependency

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 22:46 -0700, Sadineni, Harish via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Harish Sadineni <Harish.Sadineni@windriver.com>
> 
> In SDK, while running "x86_64-poky-linux-gp-collect-app ./exe" fails
> to create 'test.1.er' due to missing gprofng configure file in sysconfdir
> and aborting with below error while generating the profiling data.
>  - configuration error: can not find libgp-collector.so. run aborted
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harish Sadineni <Harish.Sadineni@windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc
> index 62ebb3f5bc..7f2699089e 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc
> @@ -30,3 +30,4 @@ do_install () {
>  }
>  
>  BBCLASSEXTEND = ""
> +RDEPENDS:${PN} = "nativesdk-gprofng"

Shouldn't gp-collect-app be put into the gprofng package instead?

Adding that dependency effectively join the gprof package into the main
PN and makes the separation pointless.

Cheers,

Richard