On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, Richard Purdie wrote:

On Sat, 2020-02-08 at 13:31 -0500, rpjday@... wrote:

consider under recipes-devtools the two directories "pkgconfig"
and "pkgconf", and the respective .bb files:

- pkgconfig_git.bb
- pkgconf_1.6.3.bb

the pkgconfig recipe file does *not* contain a PROVIDES setting,
while pkgconfig_1.6.3.bb does:

PROVIDES += "pkgconfig"

The above looks superfluous at a glance.

sorry, i mistyped the above, i should have written:

"the pkgconfig recipe file does *not* contain a PROVIDES setting,
while pkgconf_1.6.3.bb does:"

so that PROVIDES line *would* be necessary, yes? (just not the "+="
part). my apologies for reproducing incorrectly.

rday