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| author | Holger Hans Peter Freyther <zecke@selfish.org> | 2009-08-11 05:29:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Holger Hans Peter Freyther <zecke@selfish.org> | 2009-08-11 09:57:15 +0200 |
| commit | 3b920ca03db2392b542c1fc80505228ae43b14fb (patch) | |
| tree | 1831bf12bee5b62082e6a69068f3080e8aca22c0 | |
| parent | 08020ed71ffccfd2893ba869e73e3a169a5ae068 (diff) | |
usermanual: Only advertize using shlibs for external toolchains
Using shlibs and ASSUME_SHLIBS should be everything we need to
get proper dependencies into packages. This section should get
more work and the external-poky-toolchain approach should be
copied to simplify this task.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/usermanual/chapters/common_use_cases.xml | 24 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/docs/usermanual/chapters/common_use_cases.xml b/docs/usermanual/chapters/common_use_cases.xml index 8000f5f1d3..241eb5318b 100644 --- a/docs/usermanual/chapters/common_use_cases.xml +++ b/docs/usermanual/chapters/common_use_cases.xml @@ -379,20 +379,16 @@ NOTE: Couldn't find shared library provider for libm.so.6 </screen> <para>OpenEmbedded tries to automatically add run-time dependencies - (RDEPENDS) to the package. It uses the <emphasis><link - linkend="shlibs">shlibs</link></emphasis> system to do add them, in this - case it was not able to find packages providing these libraries as they - are prebuilt. This means they will not be added to the RDEPENDS of the - just created package. The result can be fatal. If you use OpenEmbedded - to create images you will end up with a image without a libc being - installed. This will lead to a fatal failure. To workaround this issue - you could create a package for the metadata to install every needed - library and use ${BOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_RDEPENDS} to make sure this package is - installed when creating images.</para> - - <para>However, the correct way to resolve this is to provide explicit - mapping using ASSUME_SHLIBS variable. For example, for the libraries - above (partial): + (RDEPENDS) to generated packages. It is inspecting binaries and + libraries and uses the <emphasis><link linkend="shlibs">shlibs</link> + </emphasis> system to do add dependencies for the linked libaries, + however in this case it was not able to find packages providing these + libraries as they were prebuilt. + </para> + + <para>One way to resolve this problem is to provide an explicit mapping + using the ASSUME_SHLIBS variable in a config file <filename>local.conf</filename>. + For example, for the libraries above (partial): <screen> ASSUME_SHLIBS = "libqtopia2.so.2:qtopia2_2.4 libc.so.6:libc" </screen> |