[meta-intel] [PATCH 0/4] misc meta-intel Fixes

[Darren Hart]

On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 22:02 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 14 August 2013 21:49, Darren Hart <darren.hart at intel.com> wrote:
> > So the correct way to build from oe-core without meta-yocto would be to
> > append these values to DISTRO_FEATURES in local.conf? That or define our
> > own DISTRO... which is basically what including meta-yocto does with
> > poky. I did pull this in for Minnow and will now have to revert.
> 
> Yeah, you can use DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " opengl" in your
> local.conf if you want to do a "pure" bitbake+oe-core build.
> 
> > If I understood correctly, the REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES mechanisms was
> > only proposed and does not exist currently?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > What is the current mechanism for this? Do we have one of the tasks in
> > the emgd driver recipe check for the required features in distro config
> > and error out if they are missing?
> 
> The systemd recipe has a fairly idiomatic way of skipping packages
> depending on the distro features, which will result in an message
> saying the package is being skipped, and then a build failure when the
> dependencies don't resolve.

Nitin, can you please have a look at the systemd example and consider a
rewrite using that for meta-intel as well as meta-minnow?

Thanks again Ross and RP for catching this, we appreciate the importance
of the appropriate layer rules.

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Darren

> 
> Ross
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