From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp486.redcondor.net (smtp486.redcondor.net [208.80.204.86]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0AB870632 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by smtp486.redcondor.net ({6695537a-536a-45f9-a249-877c85428649}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTPS id 20140724122544571 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:25:44 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from [64.102.254.33] (port=3522 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XAI5b-0004bP-3O; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:25:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:25:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Richard Purdie In-Reply-To: <1406203585.27697.5.camel@ted> Message-ID: References: <1406203585.27697.5.camel@ted> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-MAG-OUTBOUND: ccj.redcondor.net@64.235.106.9/32 Cc: OE Core mailing list Subject: Re: simple dependency question X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:25:56 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 07:13 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i realize that "DEPENDS" represents build-time dependencies, as in > > ... all of the DEPENDS recipes must build *completely* before this > > recipe can *begin* to build, is that correct? > > > > however, in something like module.bbclass where one finds: > > > > do_make_scripts[deptask] = "do_populate_sysroot" > > > > does that now *override* the normal build-time dependency to say only > > that this recipe's do_make_scripts task need only wait until all of > > the "DEPENDS" recipes have completed their do_populate_sysroot tasks? > > The original DEPENDS meaning remains unchanged and applies to the > configure task. The behaviour of DEPENDS comes from: > > do_configure[deptask] = "do_populate_sysroot" > > which means the configure task waits for all the populate_sysroot tasks > of DEPENDS to complete before executing this task. > > do_make_scripts[deptask] = "do_populate_sysroot" > > Adds constraints to the make_scripts task where it also must wait until > all DEPENDS populate_sysroot have run before it can. > > > in other words, the instant i define an inter-task dependency, does > > that relax the normal strong build dependency? since, if it didn't, > > this wouldn't make any sense. > > and hence no, it doesn't relax other rules. ah, i should have known/remembered that. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================