2 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/gobject-introspection-data.bbclass b/meta/classes/gobject-introspection-data.bbclass
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b1bdd268e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/classes/gobject-introspection-data.bbclass
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# This variable is set to True if gobject-introspection-data is in
+# DISTRO_FEATURES and qemu-usermode is in MACHINE_FEATURES, and False otherwise.
+#
+# It should be used in recipes to determine whether introspection data should be built,
+# so that qemu use can be avoided when necessary.
+GI_DATA_ENABLED = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'gobject-introspection-data', \
+                      bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'qemu-usermode', 'True', 'False', d), 'False', d)}"
+
+
diff --git a/meta/classes/gobject-introspection.bbclass b/meta/classes/gobject-introspection.bbclass
index d8b8b3ed27..2d73e402ce 100644
--- a/meta/classes/gobject-introspection.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/gobject-introspection.bbclass
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Inherit this class in recipes to enable building their introspection files
 
-# This allows disabling introspection support (and therefore avoiding the use
-# of qemu) in recipes if gobject-introspection-data is omitted from
-# DISTRO_FEATURES or MACHINE_FEATURES.
-EXTRA_OECONF_prepend = "${@bb.utils.contains('COMBINED_FEATURES', 'gobject-introspection-data', '--enable-introspection', '--disable-introspection', d)} "
+# This sets up autoconf-based recipes to build introspection data (or not),
+# depending on distro and machine features (see gobject-introspection-data class).
+inherit gobject-introspection-data
+EXTRA_OECONF_prepend = "${@bb.utils.contains('GI_DATA_ENABLED', 'True', '--enable-introspection', '--disable-introspection', d)} "
 
 UNKNOWN_CONFIGURE_WHITELIST_append = " --enable-introspection --disable-introspection"