[yocto] gettext.bb question

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Wed May 9 20:26:45 PDT 2012


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:
>
> DEPENDS = "libxml2-native gettext-native virtual/libiconv ncurses expat"
> DEPENDS_virtclass-native = "libxml2-native gettext-minimal-native"
>
> What does -native in the DEPENDS= 'do' here?

there is a bit of optimization here to parallelize the build where
gettext-minimal-native is now used otherwise
gettext becomes serialization point for build

You should also look at gettext.bbclass when you are
looking into understanding gettext dependencies



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