[OE-core] [PATCH 1/5] alsa-plugins: initial recipe

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 10:00 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 18 May 2015 at 13:40, Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
>         When PulseAudio is installed, alsa-plugins is needed to
>         provide
>         compatibility for ALSA applications.
>         
>         The dependencies are set up so that pulseaudio-server depends
>         on
>         alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-conf, and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-conf
>         depends
>         on the PulseAudio plugins. This should make the
>         ALSA->PulseAudio
>         compatibility configuration work out of the box, while leaving
>         the
>         PulseAudio specific configuration out on systems that don't
>         have
>         pulseaudio-server installed.
> 
>  * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies
> for alsa-plugins-dev:
>  * alsa-plugins (= 1.0.29-r0) * 
>  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package alsa-plugins-dev.

Oops! In the future, when adding any new packages, I probably should try
building images with those packages installed.

> There's a default RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ${PN}, but as alsa-plugins
> doesn't exist that isn't very useful.  Then again shipping the .la
> files for the loadable modules isn't very useful either (Linux doesn't
> need them to load modules, and nothing will link against them).  
> 
> 
> So, instead of:
> 
> 
> +FILES_${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/alsa-lib/*.la"
> 
> 
> 
> we should just delete the .la files in the do_install_append().

Right, the -dev package is obviously pointless in this case. I could
have realized that just by thinking a bit more while writing the
recipe...

-- 
Tanu