On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > p.s. i'm still wondering if there's a convenient way to identify > utilities on the dev host that are candidates for ASSUME_PROVIDED. > surely a relatively recent version of subversion would be adequate, > but how would one actually *know* that?
This gets brought up pretty regularly, and the answer is it's a pain to know when it can be done. Getting a successful build doesn't necessarily mean you can get away with whatever it was you added to ASSUME_PROVIDED, because it just means you didn't try to build something that required X feature that isn't in version Y of the software. Basically you can arrange something like that, but you'd never be supported in your efforts, because it could always break sometime. For what it's worth, I do something like that in most of my builds, and it has only rarely caused any problems. I can show you what I use if you'd like, but again it's buyer^Wbuilder beware :) -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto