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Tracking Down Missing RDEPENDS Items

Is there a general process for tracking down missing RDEPENDS items that are listed in bitbake errors like this:

ERROR: program-3.2.166.0-r2 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/bin/program contained in package program requires libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.3.4), but no providers found in RDEPENDS_program? [file-rdeps]

Simply adding the undecorated item (libz in this case) to RDEPENDS works sometimes, but not always.

Solution

  • You can use oe-pkgdata-util find-path '*libz.so*' to find the actual package providing the missing library which you can then add to RDEPENDS.