On Sat, 11 Aug 2012, Chris Larson wrote: > 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.
oh, i absolutely understand the technical traps involved. > 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 :) sure, i'm interested, send me a pointer offline, thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto