[meta-virtualization] [PATCH] xen: use PACKAGECONFIG for SDL and a bit of dependency cleanup

Philip Tricca flihp at twobit.us
Tue Nov 5 18:18:34 PST 2013


On 11/05/2013 08:08 PM, Chris Patterson wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Philip Tricca <flihp at twobit.us
> <mailto:flihp at twobit.us>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Chris,
> 
>     On 11/04/2013 10:17 PM, Chris Patterson wrote:
>     > I would think that libsdl should be included as a runtime
>     dependency if
>     > enabled...?  Though looking through recipes, it would appear that many
>     > PACKAGECONFIG users ignore the runtime dependencies (presumably
>     assuming
>     > that the image will include them if the functionality is desired - or
>     > perhaps specifying only when the dependency is strictly required as a
>     > result?).
> 
>     I left out the runtime dependency stuff because the xen-qemu package
>     will end up with a dependency on libsdl if it's enabled. I was under the
>     impression that this is sufficient though I'm not exactly sure how the
>     dependency is created. Honestly I was happy to write it off as
>     bitbake/OE magic. I've tested dom0 images with sdl enabled and disabled
>     and the xen-qemu package will pull the SDL library into the image if
>     it's enabled.
> 
>     Are you seeing different behavior?
> 
> 
> My mistake - my grep foo was weak - the libSDL shared objects are
> special enough to deserve capitalization. :)

I did the same thing. No worries.

Just sent out a v2 to get the glib-2.0 dependency I missed. Should be ok
from here but another set of eyes to test would be much appreciated. Any
progress on the update to Xen 4.3.1? ;)

- Philip




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