[yocto] RDEPENDS fails to find an existing package

[Khem Raj]

On Thursday, February 16, 2012, Autif Khan <autif.mlist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 10:26 +0530, Joshua Immanuel wrote:
>>> Can you please explain little bit more on what INSANE_SKIP_${PN} =
>>> "dev-so" does. I don't find any documentation on it.
>>
>> I guess, it suppresses the warnings stating that an non-dev package
>> contains symlink. This is the warning I got, when I packaged protobuf
>> for yocto
>
> In the e-mail I mentioned that if you are using M2 1.2 (means the
> milestone 2 of version 1.2). 1,2 final will be released sometime in
> the next few weeks/months.
>
> Sometime between 1.1 and 1.2 M2 - the behavior has been changed where
> the warning you described below has been changed to an error - thereby
> - the said .so files are not actually included.
>
> This does not apply if you are using 1.0 or 1.1 (not sure about 1.1
> myself - I jumped from 1.0 to 1.2 M2)
>
> Eventually - if/when you will be using a newer release of yocto - your
> recipe will fail to work as expected - unless you have that insane
> skip.
>


Did you even try to understand what his original problem was ?
If not go back to first post and reread it


>
>>
>>> WARNING: QA Issue: non -dev/-dbg/-nativesdk package contains symlink
.so:
>>> protobuf path
'/work/core2-poky-linux/protobuf-2.4.1-r1/packages-split/protobuf/usr/lib/libprotobuf.so'
>>> WARNING: QA Issue: protobuf:
/work/core2-poky-linux/protobuf-2.4.1-r1/packages-split/protobuf/usr/lib/libprotobuf.so
>>> contains probably-redundant RPATH /usr/lib
>>
>> Adding the line INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "dev-so" suppressed the above
>> warnings.
>
> This is correct.
>
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