Re: [PATCH] openssl: Fix documentation DEPENDS

[Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com>]

On 8/27/19 8:25 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 15:08, Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com 
> <mailto:jpewhacker@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     RSS doesn't clear out the sysroots if it goes back and executes
>     previous
>     tasks as part of a rebuild. As such, if perl gets added by a later
>     task,
>     then bitbake goes back and re-executes the task (I don't remember
>     exactly which one... do_configure maybe?), perl may be present
>     when it
>     wasn't before.
>
>
> I am still not understanding. The sysroot is populated once before 
> anything in configure/compile/install/package executes. How would perl 
> then magically appear later on in the sysroot?

It's not populated just once. Any task can add things to the RSS as the 
build progresses. However, the RSS is only cleaned out at one specific 
point early in the build, which I can't recall ATM.

>
> Alex