On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz < [email protected]> wrote:
> Libdwarf (recipe) DEPENDS on elfutils and gives static library in > libdwarf-staticdev package, headers in libdwarf-dev package. OK, it > works. So I looked at dependencies of resulting packages. > > Why libdwarf-dev recommends elfutils-dev is beyond my knowledge... > This has always been the case. -dev/-dbg use depchains to pull in their corresponding packages of the DEPENDS of the main package, to ensure that all the necessary development or debugging files are available, as far as I know. Grep around for depchains, you'll see the code, but it's mostly handled at line 1716 (package_depchains) of package.bbclass. -- Christopher Larson
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