I want to append a non-trivial python code to the "do_install" task, which is shell code.
How can I do that? Can I just use the following, and it magically will work?
python do_install_append() {
}
What's the best workaround? Use the [postfuncs] attribute? Or create an entirely new task and add it after do_install before do_package?
Goal:
I'm porting some packages to be able to build for MACHINE=x86-64_mingw32. Some packages install their .dll files into ${libdir}, but for MinGW the correct folder for shared libraries would be ${bindir} (according to other build systems like MSYS2 and MXE), so my class will automatically move entire sub-trees out of ${libdir} into ${bindir}, after the recipe's do_install. Afterwards, if this leaves any empty folders in ${libdir} where the shared libraries used to be in, they will be removed.
An append won't magically work, postfuncs would be the best way to handle it. That said, could you set libdir to point at bindir using an override within the recipe?:
libdir_x86-64-mingw32 = "${bindir}"
That might work better...