[oe] TSC meeting minutes 20100204

[Graeme Gregory]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:27:34AM -0800, C Michael Sundius wrote:
> I, too, am still a little unclear  regarding how the new style staging
> works. Are you saying that we are able now to simply remove the do_stage()
> function and bitbake will somehow just know which files are intended to be
> staged from the install.. what if a [say header] file that was not
> previously "installed" is required by a dependent recipe?
> 
Your do_install should already be doing everything to make sure all needed
headers are installed. Otherwise builds on your target device wont work.

This change means that package-dev packages and staging should effetively
be identical to build against. If there is a missing header library or
anything else then improve the do_install()

Graeme