<br><br>On Thursday, February 16, 2012, Autif Khan <<a href="mailto:autif.mlist@gmail.com">autif.mlist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hello,<br>>><br>>> On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 10:26 +0530, Joshua Immanuel wrote:<br>
>>> Can you please explain little bit more on what INSANE_SKIP_${PN} =<br>>>> "dev-so" does. I don't find any documentation on it.<br>>><br>>> I guess, it suppresses the warnings stating that an non-dev package<br>
>> contains symlink. This is the warning I got, when I packaged protobuf<br>>> for yocto<br>><br>> In the e-mail I mentioned that if you are using M2 1.2 (means the<br>> milestone 2 of version 1.2). 1,2 final will be released sometime in<br>
> the next few weeks/months.<br>><br>> Sometime between 1.1 and 1.2 M2 - the behavior has been changed where<br>> the warning you described below has been changed to an error - thereby<br>> - the said .so files are not actually included.<br>
><br>> This does not apply if you are using 1.0 or 1.1 (not sure about 1.1<br>> myself - I jumped from 1.0 to 1.2 M2)<br>><br>> Eventually - if/when you will be using a newer release of yocto - your<br>> recipe will fail to work as expected - unless you have that insane<br>
> skip.<br>><br><br><br>Did you even try to understand what his original problem was ?<br>If not go back to first post and reread it<br><br><br>><br>>><br>>>> WARNING: QA Issue: non -dev/-dbg/-nativesdk package contains symlink .so:<br>
>>> protobuf path '/work/core2-poky-linux/protobuf-2.4.1-r1/packages-split/protobuf/usr/lib/libprotobuf.so'<br>>>> WARNING: QA Issue: protobuf: /work/core2-poky-linux/protobuf-2.4.1-r1/packages-split/protobuf/usr/lib/libprotobuf.so<br>
>>> contains probably-redundant RPATH /usr/lib<br>>><br>>> Adding the line INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "dev-so" suppressed the above<br>>> warnings.<br>><br>> This is correct.<br>>