[yocto] trouble with rootfs generation with mxnet package

[karthik poduval]

Hi Ross,

Thanks a lot, your analysis was spot on, I followed the recommendation
from that wiki you pointed to and it fixed my issue. Really appreciate
the quick response.

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Karthik Poduval

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 2:28 AM Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 17/10/2019 03:45, karthik poduval wrote:
> > Upon looking at the
> > build/tmp/work/aarch64-xilinx-linux/mxnet/1.5.0-r0/packages-split
> > directory
> > I find that the mxnet sub directory is empty, mxnet-dev,
> > mxnet-staticdev  have libmxnet.so and libmxnet.a respectively under
> > usr/lib.
>
> Don't set PACKAGES, as that's the default anyway.
>
> So it *looks* like the mxnet recipe doesn't ship versioned libraries,
> which is very bad form for something from Apache.  If this is the case
> then read
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/TipsAndTricks/Packaging_Prebuilt_Libraries#Non-versioned_Libraries.
>
> If they do ship versioned libraries (by which I mean the library is
> libxmnet.so.1.2.3 or similar) then remove FILES and INSANE_SKIP, and let
> the packaging happen normally.
>
> You've likely got the library package renamer enabled (it's on out of
> the box) so the resulting package will be libmxnet1 or similar,
> depending on the soname of the library.
>
> Ross
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Karthik Poduval