OE, bitbake and dependencies

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Donnerstag, den 09.10.2008, 11:27 +0100 schrieb Alastair Johnson:
> Sort of. According to example 4.7 in 
> http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/ch04s02.html this needs setting in a 
> .conf file not in the .bb file. I've set it in local.conf and bitbake 
> now builds the right version, though it looks like I've got some 
> cleaning up to do as linphone still seems to try linking against the 
> wrong version. This doesn't seem like the best place for dependency 
> information though since it separates the dependency information from 
> the package that has the dependency. Can I put this in the .bb file, or 
> is there another config file I should be using?

PREFERRED_* is distro policy, hence should usually be in config or local
files.

If you really need to state it in the recipe, try using
DEPENDS = "foo-1.2.3"
and
RDEPENDS = "foo (>=1.2.3)"

Note that this is considered ugly.

:M: