Re: [oe-commits] Philip Balister : i2c-tools : Stage i2c-dev.h header as i2c-dev-user.h.

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 14-12-10 14:37, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:30:46AM -0500, Philip Balister wrote:
>> On 12/14/2010 07:06 AM, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
>>> Am 10.12.2010 um 15:36 schrieb git version control:
>>>
>>>> Module: openembedded.git
>>>> Branch: org.openembedded.dev
>>>> Commit: 48e6a063370a38a35f31a28efd8f6ce6ebf00840
>>>> URL:    http://gitweb.openembedded.net/?p=openembedded.git&a=commit;h=48e6a063370a38a35f31a28efd8f6ce6ebf00840
>>>>
>>>> Author: Philip Balister<philip@balister.org>
>>>> Date:   Fri Dec 10 09:31:01 2010 -0500
>>>>
>>>> i2c-tools : Stage i2c-dev.h header as i2c-dev-user.h.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to John Faith for suggesting this approach on the ML. The problem is
>>>> i2c-tools overwrites the header staged by the kernel. This breaks programs
>>>> that depend on the kernel header.
>>>
>>> I don't think this a good solution. Now all programs break which expect
>>> this very i2c-dev.h as being staged by i2c-tools. Interestingly, the
>>> desktop distros don't bother about staging it differently, so why
>>> can't we do the same? Besides, the i2c-dev.h as staged by i2c-tools
>>> is supposed to be a superset. If it isn't we should complain with the
>>> i2c-tools developers.
>>>
>>> What can we do in the meantime?
>>
>> Can we get a survey of how other distros handle the situation?
> 
> Gentoo
> i2c-tools-3.0.[012] (all versions)
> src_install() {
>     emake install prefix="${D}"/usr || die
>     rm -rf "${D}"/usr/include # part of linux-headers
> ...
> }
> 
> so it's not part of i2c-tools package (gentoo doesn't have concept of
> -dev packages as it's always usefull to have all -dev stuff on source
> based distribution).

What are other distributions based on? Pixie dust?
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