Re: [OE-core] [master][PATCH] kernel-devsrc: fix missing RDEPENDS gawk and make

[claus.stovgaard@gmail.com]

On Thu, 2024-02-01 at 09:52 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 9:37 AM <claus.stovgaard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2024-02-01 at 08:41 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 8:31 AM <claus.stovgaard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > I looked a bit more into it, and I could remove the check-sysctl-
> > docs
> > script, but it will still end up needing an awk.
> > (Also check-sysctl-docs has been there since 5.10)
> > 
> > A quick look revealed the folloing files.
> > 
> > usr/src/kernel/arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk:#!/usr/bin/awk
> > -f
> > usr/src/kernel/scripts/ver_linux:#!/usr/bin/awk -f
> > usr/src/kernel/tools/arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-
> > 86.awk:#!/usr/bin/awk
> > -f
> > 
> > My guess is that for all normal SDK's a awk/gawk has always been
> > present, hiding the issue. So I would suggest that we just change
> > the
> > RDEPEND to cover all architectures, and not depend on some other
> > package include gawk.
> 
> Definitely. We don't want any dependencies being fulfilled
> transitively.
> 
> In particular since gawk has already been required by arm64 for a
> while,
> it isn't a completely unreasonable thing to add.
> 
> > 
> > (I only noticed the gawk issue, because I had a SDK with had the
> > "make"
> > issue, and created the most basic setup to reproduce it with poky
> > only.
> > For all normal SDK's I would expect it to include gawk)
> > 
> > What do you think Bruce?
> 
> Seems reasonable to me.
> 
> Bruce
> > 

Sounds good. I have made a patch for this

Regards
Claus

> >