[yocto] Trying to add new recipe - getting QA error I don't understand

[Burton, Ross]

Hi Brad,

On 31 July 2013 18:52, Brad Litterell <bradl at taser.com> wrote:
> I'm new to Yocto, so please let me know if this is the wrong list for
> questions like this.

You've got the right list for support question.

> I'm trying to add a recipe for a new cmake project (for UCI).  The
> do_package_qa task reports this problem:
>
> ERROR: QA Issue: uci rdepends on uci-dev
> ERROR: QA run found fatal errors. Please consider fixing them.
> ERROR: Function failed: do_package_qa
>
> uci-dev appears to be automatically generated package - there is no recipe
> for it, and I can't find any reference to it in the actual source code for
> the package.  In other words, it appears as if Yocto itself is generating
> this dependency somehow.

Correct, oe-core will generate a -dev package by default that contains
(typically) /usr/include and /usr/lib/lib*.so.

This warning indicates that the automatic library dependency
generation added a dependency from uci to uci-dev.  It sounds like
that UCI isn't installing versioned libraries (so eg
/usr/lib/libuci.so is the full library, not a symlink) and the main
uci package is shipping a binary that links to it.

If that's the case then basically UCI is doing shared libraries badly,
and you'll have to tweak the packaging.  Adding to FILES_${PN} to
include all of /usr/lib should put all the libraries into "uci".

> PV = "2011-07-18.3"

I think hyphen in PV isn't recommended, but you can avoid setting this
if you embed the version in the filename.

> #see https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=15243 for git
> SRC_URI = "file://uci-${PV}.tar.gz"

I presume you have a reason to have a local snapshot of the repo and
are not using a git URI in SRC_URI directly?

Ross