[maemo-developers] Autobuilder and build-dependencies from extras-devel

[From: gary liquid]

i have been caught in this exact scenario recently.
and yes, if the library exists in extras or extras-devel then whilst
building your application it will find and use them.

there is a gotcha though:

if you add NEW calls or references or headers into the library since you
last updated, it will FAIL because your app will be trying to load in the
older versions.

it was something I encountered and pondered whether we could make the
autobuilder "cheat" and look in the "queued for updating to extras-devel"
list so that it found the others.
but at the end of the day, I just uploaded and got the library through,
waited an hour, then sent the app.

gary

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jeremiah Foster <
jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com> wrote:

>
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 17:11, Luca Donaggio wrote:
>
> > I'm writing an application (actually a RAW image files viewer, for
> > those interested :-) ) which depends at build time from an external
> > library. I've already packaged this library and I'm ready to upload
> > it to fremantle extras-devel, but I'm wondering ... when I'll be
> > ready to upload the main app source package, it will depend on the
> > (previously uploaded) library package: will the autobuilder
> > correctly manage those dependencies (ie download and install
> > mylibrary-dev package which in turn depends from mylibrary package,
> > both in extras-devel)?
>
> Download and install? No.
>
> But if you have previously uploaded those libraries to extras-devel
> then the autobuilder should find them.
>
> More on the autobuilder:
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Uploading_to_Extras#Autobuilder_special_considerations
>
> Jeremiah
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