[yocto] Detecting missing build dependencies

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:45:30PM +0100, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If a recipe has a missing build dependency that the sysroot just
> happens to contain anyway from an earlier build, then the build will
> succeed only to fail later when the sysroot no longer has the build
> dependency. We want to avoid that, so we're looking for ways to
> automatically check for unspecified build dependencies.
> 
> The only method I know of at the moment is to remove or rename tmp/ so
> that the build uses a fresh sysroot and then trying to rebuild the
> recipe. Is there something nicer? I think I remember reading about a
> script for testing for missing build dependencies, but I might be
> misremembering.

See openembedded-core/scripts/test-dependencies.sh but it basically
automates rebuilding recipes after removing TMPDIR, but also it detects
autodetected dependencies.

Regards,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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