[yocto] RDEPENDS fails to find an existing package

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Joshua Immanuel <josh at hipro.co.in> wrote:
> its latest version libharu_2.2.1.bb. The generated .so, .la and .a files
> for this are in the name 'libhpdf'. (I guess this will not cause any
> problem.) These files are found in ${WORKDIR}/image/usr/lib
>
> My custom-image RDEPENDS for libharu. While building the custom-image
> bitbake complains
>
>        | error: Failed dependencies:
>        |       libharu is needed by task-custom-hdb-1.0-r3.ekino
>
> How do I fix this issue?

the .a files are going into -static package and I guess
there is .so and not .so.X which means .so goes into
-dev package and hence your libharu package is empty
so you have to redirect the files into correct package
with the help of FILES_${PN} = "libharu.so ...." etc.