[yocto] under what circumstances is BBCLASSEXTEND = "native" required in a recipe?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012, Chris Larson wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > p.s.  i'm still wondering if there's a convenient way to identify
> > utilities on the dev host that are candidates for ASSUME_PROVIDED.
> > surely a relatively recent version of subversion would be adequate,
> > but how would one actually *know* that?
>
> This gets brought up pretty regularly, and the answer is it's a pain
> to know when it can be done. Getting a successful build doesn't
> necessarily mean you can get away with whatever it was you added to
> ASSUME_PROVIDED, because it just means you didn't try to build
> something that required X feature that isn't in version Y of the
> software. Basically you can arrange something like that, but you'd
> never be supported in your efforts, because it could always break
> sometime.

  oh, i absolutely understand the technical traps involved.

> For what it's worth, I do something like that in most of my builds,
> and it has only rarely caused any problems. I can show you what I
> use if you'd like, but again it's buyer^Wbuilder beware :)

  sure, i'm interested, send me a pointer offline, thanks.

rday

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