From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QhYdg-0004aK-D1 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:00:28 +0200 Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p6F2uReW022687 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Macintosh-5.local (172.25.36.226) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.255.0; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:56:26 -0700 Message-ID: <4E1FAC5A.2090308@windriver.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:56:26 -0500 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <4E1F9F59.5050305@mentor.com> In-Reply-To: <4E1F9F59.5050305@mentor.com> Subject: Re: Building hg/help2man not relying on them? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:00:28 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/14/11 9:00 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > Hey all, > > As I work on bringing jenkins up on my stripped down builder machines > I've once again run into the "wait, I'm supposed to have installed...?" > problem. Can we switch to building help2man and mercurial rather than > making the end user install them? Perhaps some sort of test for if we > find it, ASSUME_PROVIDED it, otherwise build it? > The full sanity list is: patch help2man diffstat texi2html makeinfo cvs svn bzip2 tar gzip gawk hg chrpath wget cpio Of the above, help2man, texi2html, hg, and chrpath seem to be the ones I usually have to find or build myself. If we can build those (or setup the assume_provide) that would make it much easier for me.... --Mark