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[Herman van Hazendonk]

Hi Pietro,

You shouldn't need to specify a version. DEPENDS = "protobuf" or DEPENDS 
= "protobuf-native" should do :)

Herrie



On 2016-09-01 15:40, Pietro wrote:
> Pietro <pulsarpietro at posteo.net> writes:
> 
>> Jussi Kukkonen <jussi.kukkonen at intel.com>
>> writes:
>> 
>>> On 1 September 2016 at 13:21, Herman van Hazendonk
>>> <me at herrie.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     Hi Pietro,
>>> 
>>>     You can override the recipe by adding a recipe for version 3.0.0+
>>>     in your own layer and making sure your layer has a higher 
>>> priority
>>>     in bblayers.conf. See for example what we do in our project:
>>> 
>>>     
>>> https://github.com/webOS-ports/webos-ports-setup/blob/testing/conf/bblayers.conf
>>> 
>>> 
>>>     openembedded-core provides ofono 1.1.7 for example with
>>>     
>>> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/tree/krogoth/meta/recipes-
>>>    connectivity/ofono
>>> 
>>>     However we want to use ANOTHER version of ofono (1.1.7 based, but
>>>     from a different repo/project).
>>> 
>>>     So we have our own .bbappend at
>>>     
>>> https://github.com/webOS-ports/meta-webos-ports/blob/krogoth/meta-luneos/recipes-connectiv
>>>    ity/ofono/ofono_git.bbappend where we specify the different repo
>>>     etc to use.
>>> 
>>>     This doesn't apply 1:1 in your case, but you could simply add a
>>>     protobuf_3.0.0.bb in your own layer and it should build that
>>>     instead. Just make sure you have your layer at a higher position
>>>     compared to meta-openembedded in your bblayers.conf
>> 
>> Thanks a lot.
>> I have written my own repice and added it into my own layer, it
>> does not compile though :
>> 
>> |
>> | autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
>> |
>> | autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory gmock not present
>> | autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
>> | autoreconf: running:
>> | 
>> /export/arm/pietro/PD15.1/build/tmp-glibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/autoconf
>> | 
>> --include=/export/arm/pietro/PD15.1/build/tmp-glibc/work/cortexa8t2hf-vfp-neon-phytec-linux-gnueabi/proto
>> buf/3.0.0-r0/git/m4/ --force
>> |
>> | configure.ac:93: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>> |
>> |       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>> |       m4_pattern_allow.
>> |       See the Autoconf documentation.
>> |
>> | autoreconf:
>> | 
>> /export/arm/pietro/PD15.1/build/tmp-glibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/autoconf
>> | failed with exit status: 1
>> |
>> | + bbfatal autoreconf execution failed.
>> 
>> I understand this is a completely different matter now, but has
>> anybody else seen this before ? I have tried to compile the same
>> revision on my local machine "natively" and it's built fine.
>> 
>> That library should be a dependency for another package/recipe I am
>> working on, is it allowed to specify a version inside the DEPENDS
>> recipe's clause ? I have tried to google the problem but I haven't 
>> found
>> a working example as yet.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> P.
> Forget about it, I was pointing to a broken commit it.
> My recipe name is protobuf_3.0.0.bb, how do I make it a dependency of
> another package ?
> 
> I have tried many solution but none of them is working :
> DEPENDS = "protobuf > 3.0.0" ... "protobuf_3.0.0" ... etc etc
> 
> Any thoughts ?
> 
> P.