[yocto] QA rdepends issue when building xerces-c

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 24 May 2013 10:27:43 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thursday 23 May 2013 21:55:13 Hartmut Behrens wrote:
> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Hartmut Behrens
> > 
> > <hartmut.behrens at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I also tried INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "dev-so" without any luck.
> > > 
> > > Might you know how to solve this?
> > 
> > So including INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "dev-deps" does the trick.
> > 
> > I tried playing around with FILES (shown below), but can't quite get
> > it right. The error that is issued then is "ERROR: QA Issue: non
> > -dev/-dbg/-nativesdk package contains symlink .so ..."
> > 
> > FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/* ${libdir}/*"
> > FILES_${PN}-dev = "${includedir} ${libdir}/libxerces-c.so"
> 
> FYI, files are selected for each package by looking through the PACKAGES
> variable and for each package in turn the value of FILES is checked. The
> first package whose FILES matches a file, gets the file.
> 
> The default value of PACKAGES is "${PN}-dbg ${PN}-staticdev ${PN}-dev ${PN}-
> doc ${PN}-locale ${PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN} ${PN}"; thus FILES_${PN} can be broad
> if the earlier packages pick out the files they need to specifically.
> 
> In most cases the default values work perfectly. What you really need to do
> is determine which file it is that gets added to the -dev package and put
> that elsewhere. You should not need to change FILES_${PN}, just
> FILES_${PN}-dev (or other packages as appropriate).

I should add I did try to build xerces-c using this recipe with a few tweaks, 
and it failed at do_configure because /usr/include was being referred to in the 
configure script (in check for unicode libraries). I didn't take it further 
than that.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre