[yocto] DEPENDS problem with core-image-full-cmdline

[Paul Eggleton]

On Fri, 27 May 2016 09:01:31 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2016 17:03:13 Jonathan Haws wrote:
> > > DEPENDS is built-time for the recipe, so the concept of per-package
> > > build dependencies doesn't really make sense.
> > > 
> > > DEPENDS = "foo bar" are build dependencies
> > > RDEPENDS_${PN} = "foo bar" are package-specific runtime dependencies.
> > 
> > Ross, thanks for clearing that up.  Is there anything in the
> > documentation that talks about that?  I've read through most of the docs
> > and don't remember any details about that distinction.
> 
> I guess we don't cover that explicitly, other than in the reference manual
> entries for each variable. We probably need a small section on dependencies
> in the "Writing a new Recipe" section:
> 
>  
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#new-rec
> ipe-writing-a-new-recipe
> 
> That can cover the difference between build-time and runtime dependencies
> and the usage of DEPENDS and RDEPENDS respectively.

FYI at Scott's suggestion I've filed a bug to cover updating the docs:

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9679

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre