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On 03/14/2012 08:00 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:57:56AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/13/2012 05:31 PM, Scott Garman wrote:

...

>>>  PACKAGES += " \
>>> +  ${PN}-libncurses \
>>> +  ${PN}-libncursesw \
>>
>> This one needs to be dependent on ENABLE_WIDEC
> 
> isn't just
> ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-libncursesw = "1"
> enough?

Perhaps. ALLOW_EMPTY is not defined in poky/documentation/* nor in
poky/conf/documentation.conf.

(I realize this oe-core and not poky, but this is the best reference I
know of)

Could you provide a terse description of how ALLOW_EMPTY* is meant to be
used, its effects, and any needful cautionary text? Scott can then add
it to the above documentation.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel