On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 21:16 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On 23/09/2019 19:01, Trevor Gamblin wrote: > > From: Trevor Gamblin<[email protected]> > > > > lighttpd builds fail if "fam" (and therefore gamin) is enabled. > > > > In conf/local.conf: > > > > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "lighttpd" > > PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-lighttpd = " fam" > > > > bitbake error: > > > > ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'gamin' (but /yow-lpggp31/tgamblin/oe- > > core.git/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.54.bb DEPENDS > > on or otherwise requires it) > > NOTE: Runtime target 'lighttpd' is unbuildable, removing... > > Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['lighttpd', > > 'gamin'] > > ERROR: Required build target 'core-image-minimal' has no > > buildable providers. > > Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image- > > minimal', 'lighttpd', 'gamin'] > > > > Since gamin doesn't appear to have a recipe and hasn't been > > maintained for several years, this should be removed from the > > list of lighttpd PACKAGECONFIG options. > > Non-default PACKAGECONFIGs are allowed to depend on recipes that are > not > in core, plenty of recipes do this. Otherwise there'd be no way to > turn > on options that have dependencies in other layers. > > However, the fact that Gamin is very much dead is a good reason to > remove the PACKAGECONFIG and simply hardcode --without-fam for good > measure.
Agreed, can we have a v2 with --without-fam hardcoded in EXTRA_OECONF please? Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
