[meta-freescale] How to drop dependency of virtual/kernel from Qt and others [was Re: [meta-fsl-arm PATCH 01/23] fsl-dynamic-packagearch.bbclass: Dynamically set package architecture]

[Eric Bénard]

Le Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:44:52 -0300,
Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> a écrit :

> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
> ...
> >> >> > While at it : why does qt4 depends on virtual/kernel ?
> >> >> > That's quite annoying as it seems qt gets rebuilt everytime we make a
> >> >> > change to the kernel.
> >> >>
> >> >> It uses kernel headers and do syscalls for mxcfb. I am open for an
> >> >> advise how to make this better.
> >> >>
> >> > maybe we could include the linux/mxcfb.h in the patch as these 2
> >> > ioctls and the 2 struct have little chance to change ?
> >>
> >> The problem here is it is included in the kernel. Can you submit a bug
> >> in bugzilla about this? So I can use this to collect the information.
> >>
> >> We have this in more places, not just Qt, and it'd help a lot so I
> >> will try to think on a generic solution for this.
> >>
> > why not having a mxc-header package built from the generic
> > Freescale kernel so that the software depending on the headers are not
> > impacted by any kernel change ?
> 
> This may work just fine. Are you willing to give this a try?
> 
> I'd call it linux-imx-headers so it is clear it is built from
> linux-imx. What do you think?
> 
I'll try that by next week

Eric