[yocto] Error on building

[ratheesh kannoth]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Alex J Lennon
<ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 05/03/2014 16:54, ratheesh kannoth wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Alex J Lennon
>> <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2014 16:15, ratheesh kannoth wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Alex J Lennon
>>>> <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Ratheesh, I believe you would need to ensure that any static libraries
>>>>> built are either removed or packaged appropriately so as not to trigger
>>>>> the Q/A error.
>>>>>
>>>>> One approach is to modify the recipe to add the static library to the
>>>>> -staticdev package, i.e. to add
>>>>>
>>>>> FILES_${PN}-staticdev += " path\to\static\library\libsf_engine.a"
>>>>>
>>>>> What recipe are you trying to build?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex
>>>> Alex,
>>>> Thanks. I am trying  to compile snort package.  I could easily get
>>>> around these problems using  INSANE_SKIP.  But a new problem popped
>>>> up. I have compiled  libdnet with out  a SONAME. So snort binary
>>>> contains , ( ldd shows ) a full path to the library.  So rootfs build
>>>> fails with
>>>> following error.
>>>>
>>>> Computing transaction...error: Can't install sf-test-1.0-r0.6 at x86_64:
>>>> no package provides
>>>> /workspace/linux/wrlinux/bitbake_build/tmp/sysroots/intel-x86-64/usr/lib64/libdnet()(64bit)
>>>>
>>>> I can rebuild libdnet with  SONAME ( linker flag ) and solve this
>>>> problem  OR  I can put SKIP_FILEDEPS = "1" in  sf  recipe file. But
>>>> SKIP_FILEDEPS  will skip every check  in all recipes. I am looking
>>>> something similar  option like  INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += "dev-so" ??
>>> That's interesting Ratheesh. Is there a reason for not including the
>>> soname attribute in libdnet?
>>>
>>> I would have thought that in a situation like that where there's no
>>> soname the snort binary shared library path should be fixed up to the
>>> target path, a relative path, rather than an absolute host path?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>> -Ratheesh
>> I removed soname by mistake.
>>
>> I would like to know about workarounds  if such problem comes in yocto. Could u
>> enlighten me
>
> I'm no expert I'm afraid Ratheesh. I try to avoid the workarounds
> as they usually cause me problems down the road, but I'd probably
> look at the same thing as you with INSANE_SKIP_
>
> ...
>
> Hunting around a little it does look as though you can do per-recipe dep
> skips though,
> and indeed per-package skips
>
> http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/43457/
>
>
>> -Ratheesh
>

This wont work. I dont think this patch ever went into pain.