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On 2016年01月20日 15:49, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 14:10 +0800, Jian Liu wrote:
>> linux-libc-headers-dbg is empty and unset ALLOW_EMPTY
>> for this sub-package.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jian Liu <jian.liu@windriver.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc
>> -headers.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc
>> -headers.inc
>> index 2ba6ed5..75f6899 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc
>> @@ -76,3 +76,5 @@ RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dbg = "${PN}-dev (=
>> ${EXTENDPKGV})"
>>   
>>   INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
>>   DEPENDS += "unifdef-native"
>> +
>> +ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dbg = "0"
> It may be empty but our packaging criteria say we always generate a dbg
> package since they can be part of dependency chains and we're
> interested in the dependencies.
>
> I appreciate in this case, the libc-headers are a corner case at the
> end of the chains so you could argue this one can be skipped for
> packaging but the system does assume all -dbg packages exist so I'd
> prefer to leave this alone, unless its part of a bigger picture rethink
> about -dbg packages.
I see

Thanks very much for reminding me this.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
>