On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:00 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Richard Purdie > <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Originally, git was something new, not installed everywhere and had > > commandline > > stability problems. This has changed and git it no longer makes sense to > > continually build this when the system installed version is likely > > sufficient. > > > > This speeds up build since recipes no longer have to wait for git-native to > > build > > if they're fetched from a git:// SRC_URI. > > > > Also add git to the sanity checks and drop the no unneeded svn reference. > > What about testing the host system for presence of certain things? > Then one could > > 1) yum/apt/etc install the needed items
We do something like this in GNOME/jhbuild, but there's no version comparison: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564373 This is mainly targeted for system libraries which have pkg-config files, but we're discussing extending it to executables and non-pkg-config headers: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671042 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
