On 26 May 2016 at 18:03, Jonathan Haws <jonathan.h...@sdl.usu.edu> wrote:
> > DEPENDS is built-time for the recipe, so the concept of per-package
> > build dependencies doesn't really make sense.
> >
> > DEPENDS = "foo bar" are build dependencies
> > RDEPENDS_${PN} = "foo bar" are package-specific runtime dependencies.
>
> Ross, thanks for clearing that up. Is there anything in the
> documentation that talks about that? I've read through most of the docs
> and don't remember any details about that distinction. Are there other
> variables that this applies to?
The general rule is that the only time you use _${PN} or similar is when
the variable impacts a binary package, so FILES, RDEPENDS, RRECOMMENDS,
INSANE_SKIP and similar.
Ross
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