[ELDK] How to add a package to meta-toolchain-qte?

[Sergei Poselenov]

Hello Marek,

On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 18:38:37 +0200
Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:

> On Monday, August 04, 2014 at 06:00:43 PM, Sergei Poselenov wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:34:13 +0200
> > 
> > Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> > > On Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 07:10:34 PM, Sergei Poselenov wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I added a package (log4cxx) to meta/recipes-devtools to ELDK-5.3
> > > > tree. Everything is fine, the package built and populated to the
> > > > target image using "IMAGE_INSTALL +=".
> > > > 
> > > > However, I've run into a problem of adding the main and "-dev"
> > > > package to the SDK image. I need "liblog4cxx10" and
> > > > "liblog4cxx-dev" (the names of .ipk's) to be added to sysroot of
> > > > meta-toolchain-qte, so I could link a sample program with a
> > > > header in include/log4cxx/ and respective library.
> > > 
> > > Are you possibly looking for SDKIMAGE_FEATURES variable ?
> > 
> > Probably, however I see that in the ELDK-5.x build framework it is
> > not used. Setting SDKIMAGE_FEATURES += " log4cxx-dev" doesn't work,
> > as well as "=".
> > 
> > I finally got my dev package installed and packed to the toolchain
> > after adding "log4cxx-dev" to the list of RDEPENDS_${PN}
> > in
> > /meta-eldk/recipes-qt/packagegroups/packagegroup-qte-toolchain-target.bbap
> > pend.
> > 
> > Do you know how to achieve the same via the build configuration in
> > conf/local.conf? Setting RDEPENDS_meta-toolchain-qte or
> > RDEPENDS_packagegroup-qte-toolchain-target in conf/local.conf is
> > ignored. I think this is because RDEPENDS variable is parsed only
> > for the .bb recipes.
> 
> The workflow here would be to produce another metalayer (meta-emcraft
> for example) containing another
> packagegroup-qte-toolchain-target.bbappend file, which would contain
> the RDEPENDS_${PN} += "foo bar baz" . This is how all this metalayer
> stuff is supposed to work -- you're not supposed to modify the layers
> you receive, but instead you produce your own and contain your
> adjustments in it.
> 

Yes, already thought so. Thanks!

Regards,

Sergei
> [...]
> 
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut