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    • Andreas Baak's avatar
      catkin: split up catkin in order to reduce runtime dependencies · 18588242
      Andreas Baak authored
      
      The catkin package has got a runtime dependency to cmake, make,
      gcc and other build utilities. These dependencies, however, are
      only needed if it is desired to build with catkin on the target
      board. If we do not want to build on the target board, i.e., if
      we just want to use ros tools like roslaunch, only a small part
      of catkin (i.e., the corresponding python packages) is required
      to be deployed on the target board.
      Therefore, we introduce a new package called catkin-runtime.
      It installs only the python packages that are required for
      the ros tools to run. The roslib package now depends on
      catkin-runtime (previously: catkin).
      
      I also tried an alternative approach which just modifies catkin.bb:
      - add a catkin-runtime package
      - move PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR from FILES_catkin to FILES_CATKIN_RUNTIME
      - make catkin_runtime RDEPEND on the python stuff
      - make catkin RDEPEND on the cmake, binutils, ..., + catkin-runtime
      With this setup, for some reason, bitbake thinks that
      catkin-runtime still RDEPENDS on binutils. Therefore, I split up
      the catkin recipe into two different recipes. Here, the
      RDEPENDS are managed correctly.
      
      If we want to deploy catkin as a build tool on the board, we can
      simply add a runtime dependency to catkin. However, this should
      not be the default setup.
      Special thanks go to Tobias Henkel (tobias.henkel@bmw-carit.de)
      who deserves most of the credits for this patch.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Baak <andreas.baak@bmw-carit.de>
      18588242
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