On 19 October 2015 at 16:37, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:

Not sure what to do here.  If we install file-native directly into the sysroot we get occasional races on the file binary  causing build failures.  If we make file-native ASSUME_PROVIDED then rpm (and subversion) change their behaviour depending on the presence of libmagic-dev on the host (well, rpm4 requires libmagic, rpm5 and subversion change their configuration).

Two proposals:

1) Tell RPM and Subversion to explicitly enable libmagic support so they fail if libmagic-dev isn't installed on the host, and document that libmagic-dev is a build requirement

2) Change file-replacement-native to install libmagic, and add file-replacement-native as a dependency to subversion-native and rpm-native.

Does anyone have a strong opinion either way?

Ross