[yocto] Avoiding both GPLv3 and meta-gplv2 ?

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Wed May 2 09:34:10 PDT 2018


On 2 May 2018 at 14:58, Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com
> wrote:

> On 05/02/2018 04:53 PM, Irving ST wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your help and explanations. Unfortunately just removing
>> ptest doesn't make it build.
>> This is the error when I tried bitbake core-image-minimal:
>>
>> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'readline' (but
>> /home/irving/srcgit/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.5.5.bb
>> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'gdbm' (but
>> /home/irving/srcgit/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.5.5.bb,
>> /home/irving/srcgit/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.24.1.bb
>> DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
>>
>
> 'readline' dependency can be easily disabled in python via PACKAGECONFIG.
> gdbm might be trickier, but I believe it's optional as well.
>

Note that this readline PACKAGECONFIG is in sumo/master, so you'll need to
cherrypick it if you're not using that.

gdbm is a little more fiddly but it can be done, I had a proof of concept
but didn't finish it.  Start by removing gdbm from DEPENDS in a bbappend
and see what breaks...

Ross
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