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From: Ross Burton <Ross.Burton@arm.com>
To: Yocto-mailing-list <yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org>,
	"richard.danter@windriver.com" <richard.danter@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [yocto] Forbidden host packages?
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:36:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BF35EDE7-E641-4A67-9503-3757509B760D@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5099ede3b255d8d36fdec025c39b466aa8bd31ef.camel@windriver.com>

On 29 Apr 2024, at 18:09, Danter, Richard via lists.yoctoproject.org <richard.danter=windriver.com@lists.yoctoproject.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 17:53 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> CAUTION: This email comes from a non Wind River email account!
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>> 
>> On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 16:37 +0000, Danter, Richard via
>> lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
>>> I know there are host packages which are required in order to build
>>> Yocto, but are there any that are forbidden?
>>> 
>>> For example, I have encountered a build issue on a RHEL host, but
>>> only
>>> if the daxctl-devel package is installed on that host. Without it,
>>> the
>>> build works fine.
>>> 
>>> The failure is in building qemu, see below.
>> 
>> qemu-system-native is a little special in that it needs to interface
>> to
>> the host graphics so it has wider search paths than most packages.
>> 
>> We try to explicitly disable dependencies we don't use so this sounds
>> like some configuration for this one is missing.
> 
> Thanks, we will investigate further.

This is usually solved trivially by adding another PACKAGECONFIG to the qemu recipe, and not enabling it (so it gets disabled explicitly), for example:

https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/commit/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc?id=9a02fb66c23b40911b5b431b348a2e7f8a2fedfc

Ross

      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-30 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-29 16:37 Forbidden host packages? Danter, Richard
2024-04-29 16:53 ` [yocto] " Richard Purdie
2024-04-29 17:09   ` Danter, Richard
2024-04-30 10:36     ` Ross Burton [this message]

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