2380 2012-05-01 17:21:58 +0000 Avoid recursive inclusion of .la files 2016-02-03 09:27:13 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core 1.3 All Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Low enhancement Future 1 raj.khem ross.burton alexander.kanevskiy bluelightning dmitry.rojkov meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher ross.burton sgw srifenbark --- --- Done (doc changes complete) oldest_to_newest 20956 0 raj.khem 2012-05-01 17:21:58 +0000 write a tool to fix the libtool .la files so that they do not call other .la files but are calling the real libraries that way we can avoid lot of overlinking. 40555 1 raj.khem 2014-02-21 03:11:30 +0000 Ross has a preliminary class here https://github.com/rossburton/meta-ross/blob/master/classes/wipe-la.bbclass 57410 2 dmitry.rojkov 2015-12-21 15:04:21 +0000 It would be good to prioritize this bug, because now overlinking is manifesting itself in misleading error messages of devtool (a part of extended SDK) like NOTE: gupnp: compiling from external source tree /home/rojkov/files/repos/gupnp ERROR: QA Issue: gssdp rdepends on libxml2, but it isn't a build dependency? [build-deps] ERROR: QA Issue: gssdp rdepends on zlib, but it isn't a build dependency? [build-deps] ERROR: QA Issue: gssdp rdepends on libsqlite3, but it isn't a build dependency? [build-deps] ERROR: QA Issue: gssdp rdepends on libffi, but it isn't a build dependency? [build-deps] 57446 3 ross.burton 2015-12-22 22:20:40 +0000 Is something like wipe-la still a viable candidate here? 57447 4 bluelightning 2015-12-22 22:27:54 +0000 Do we want an optional class or should it just be an intrinsic part of our build process? 57448 5 ross.burton 2015-12-22 23:25:12 +0000 I'm tempted to say default to on but able to be disabled, just in case someone has a situation where they actually need .la files. 57449 6 ross.burton 2015-12-22 23:32:15 +0000 For what it's worth, gnome-continuous (yocto-based CI for GNOME) does this in it's bootstrap image generation: find ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/usr/lib -name \*.la -delete And then in each "recipe" build, just deletes every .la file after install. Maybe we should try with just deleting them before packaging. 58444 7 ross.burton 2016-02-02 13:28:23 +0000 I just posted remove-libtool.bbclass to the list. This isn't enabled by default but will remove *all* libtool .la files from both target packages and sysroot, so libtool can't go crazy. 58466 8 ross.burton 2016-02-02 17:48:32 +0000 Merged in oe-core da1219b5c48fe50d667bc72bd9ad0115b25d5558. 58474 9 srifenbark 2016-02-03 01:04:36 +0000 Ross, I added this class to the ref manual: file:///home/scottrif/yocto-docs/documentation/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-classes-remove-libtool. Let me know if this is okay and I will reset the doc flag to "done." Scott 58481 10 ross.burton 2016-02-03 09:27:13 +0000 Looks good to me, thanks Scott. Setting flag to 'done'.