"The suite of statements in a function definition executes with a local namespace that is different from the global namespace. This means that all variables created within a function are local to that function. When the suite finishes, these working variables are discarded."

In this way the needs_ldconfig variable in linux_so never gets True in the statements
below this function. As global statement is generally discouraged, a return value
would be a clean and fast way to solve this issue.

[YOCTO #2205]

RP: Added logic to ensure the value doesn't get overwritten once set
(From OE-Core rev: 6d39af4f85220f20bad09b0fdd3ee0a7ec19c12d)

Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan <andrei@gherzan.ro>---
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
index d35667a91d..c3f077af3a 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
@@ -1263,6 +1263,7 @@ python package_do_shlibs() {
         lf = bb.utils.lockfile(d.expand("${PACKAGELOCK}"))
 
         def linux_so(root, path, file):
+                needs_ldconfig = False
                 cmd = d.getVar('OBJDUMP', True) + " -p " + pipes.quote(os.path.join(root, file)) + " 2>/dev/null"
                 cmd = "PATH=\"%s\" %s" % (d.getVar('PATH', True), cmd)
                 fd = os.popen(cmd)
@@ -1283,6 +1284,7 @@ python package_do_shlibs() {
                                         needs_ldconfig = True
                                 if snap_symlinks and (file != this_soname):
                                         renames.append((os.path.join(root, file), os.path.join(root, this_soname)))
+                return needs_ldconfig
 
         def darwin_so(root, path, file):
                 fullpath = os.path.join(root, file)
@@ -1382,7 +1384,8 @@ python package_do_shlibs() {
                                 if targetos == "darwin" or targetos == "darwin8":
                                         darwin_so(root, dirs, file)
                                 elif os.access(path, os.X_OK) or lib_re.match(file):
-                                        linux_so(root, dirs, file)
+                                        ldconfig = linux_so(root, dirs, file)
+                                        needs_ldconfig = needs_ldconfig or ldconfig
                 for (old, new) in renames:
                         bb.note("Renaming %s to %s" % (old, new))
                         os.rename(old, new)