[yocto] do all recipes really need LIC_FILES_CHKSUM?

[Mark Hatle]

On 11/7/11 10:01 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   current poky ref manual seems pretty adamant about need for
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM:
> 
> "Note that this variable is mandatory for all recipes, unless the
> LICENSE variable is set to "CLOSED".
> 
> but there's at least one counter-example,
> meta-demoapps/recipes-graphics/pong-clock/pong-clock_1.0.bb:

Bug in the example.. it should be fixed.

--Mark

> =====
> 
> DESCRIPTION = "A clock combined with a game of pong"
> LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
> DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11 xdmcp xau"
> 
> SRC_URI = "file://pong-clock-no-flicker.c"
> 
> S = "${WORKDIR}"
> 
> do_compile () {
>         ${CC} -o pong-clock pong-clock-no-flicker.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs x11 xau xdmcp`
> }
> 
> do_install () {
>         install -d ${D}${bindir}
>         install -m 0755 pong-clock ${D}${bindir}
> }
> 
> =====
> 
> so what's the story here?
> 
> rday
>