Re: [PATCH 3/5] help2man-native: Add 1.36.4 (GPLv2) and 1.38.2 (GPLv3)

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 07/15/2011 03:53 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 03:48 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 15:03 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> These are 'side ports' of current oe.dev versions.  PR is kept in sync
>>> but we drop out the target recipes in order to punt on potential perl
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
>>> ---
>>>  .../help2man/help2man-native_1.36.4.bb             |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  .../help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb             |   24 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>  2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.36.4.bb
>>>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb
>>>
>> [...]
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..5612eda
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
>>> +DESCRIPTION = "Program to create simple man pages"
>>> +SECTION = "devel"
>>> +LICENSE = "GPLv3"
>>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
>>> +DEPENDS = "autoconf-native automake-native"
>>> +PR = "r2"
>>> +
>>> +SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
>>> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "426671c6fe79e5ef2233303367eab5a6"
>>> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "952c29561bce8b233aa10af7f0e0c79c8243712810bf8ddf01e6efd82ce250d1"
>>> +
>>> +inherit autotools native
>>> +
>>> +EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-nls"
>>> +
>>> +# We don't want to reconfigure things
>>> +do_configure() {
>>> +	oe_runconf
>>> +}
>>
>> At the very least I'd like to know why we can't do this. Its a great way
>> to hide bugs (such as libtool rpath injection issues, admittedly in the
>> target case).
> 
> In oe.dev, chicken and egg problem wrt perl.  Here, I'll see if we can
> drop this part too, as part of a v2 with the older help2man dropped and
> per IRC, mercurial-native moved over to a meta-oe patch (but keeping the
> sanity.bbclass/bitbake.conf change).

OK, here's a "why" on not changing:
| configure.in:4: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_PERL
|       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
m4_pattern_allow.
|       See the Autoconf documentation.
| configure.in:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PERL_MODULE

Which if we fix by building vs perlnative we then need autotools.bbclass
to inherit perlnative to make life reliable which isn't what you want
wrt perl-native in the build chain :)

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation