On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 10:01 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Saturday 02 November 2013 11:22:07 Saul Wold wrote:
> > > +DEPENDS = "tcl"
> > > +RDEPENDS_${PN} = "tcl"
> >
> > You don't need an RDEPENDS_${PN} if it matches with the DEPENDS
>
> For the sake of others reading, it's not as simple as that. DEPENDS is for
> build-time dependencies, RDEPENDS is for runtime dependencies; if tcl is
> needed both at build time and at runtime, and the runtime dependency isn't a
> shared library dependency, it would be valid to have both in the recipe. It
> depends on the situation.
Just to further confuse things, if you have the RDEPENDS, you don't need
the DEPENDS since bitbake can infer that...
Cheers,
Richard
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