[OE-core] [PATCH] added recipe for libdbus-c++

[thilo.cestonaro at ts.fujitsu.com]

Am Dienstag, den 15.11.2016, 14:23 +0000 schrieb Burton, Ross:
> 
> On 15 November 2016 at 13:46, Thilo Cestonaro <thilo.cestonaro at ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Thilo Cestonaro <thilo.cestonaro at ts.fujitsu.com>
> > 
> 
> As Alex said, please submit this to meta-oe as there's no strong rationale to keep it in oe-core, especially considering it's abandoned.
> 
> The remove_CXX_FOR_BUILD-stuff patch can be trimmed to just modify configure.ac and tools/Makefile.am, the other files will be regenerated at do_configure and patching them can cause conflicts if
> upstream ever makes a new release.
> 
> Also please explain clearly why that has to be removed in the patch header because usually we need to patch *in* the _FOR_BUILD macros: I was curious and ended up looking at the build to understand
> why. AFAICT it's because upstream if cross-compiling it refuses to build target tools and will only build host tools so the test suite can run, but disabling the tests and patching out CXX_FOR_BUILD
> we can build target tools.  The downside is that we have no test suite, which is useful (see the ptest class).

Perhaps I will add ptest in another patch later. Will need to look into it.
Thanks for your comments!

> 
> Thank you for being the first person in a long time to actually submit the recipe to the community!
> 
> Ross
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