[OE-core] [PATCH 00/29] Add gobject introspection support to oe-core

[Khem Raj]

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
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> On 10 November 2015 at 23:10, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net <mailto:pb at pbcl.net>> wrote:
> Why does gobject-introspection (presumably giscanner, right?) need to
> run binaries on the target at all?  I thought it operated mostly on the
> source code.
> 
> Same reason gtk-doc's scanner executes code: vast amounts of relevant information can't reliably be extracted from source but is trivial to introspect at runtime (GObject hierarchy, properties, signals, etc).

so its not truly cross build friendly, We should try to see if this can be fed in artificial information which can be stored in some config files, similar to autoconf caching IMO.

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> Ross
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