[Buildroot] Feedback ?
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Mon Oct 20 14:52:29 UTC 2008
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:48:14PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Le Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:47:37 +0200,
> Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> a écrit :
>
> > Make sure libraries are visible when building packages
> >
> > This patch adds an LDFLAGS variable before calling the configure
> > script of any package, in order to fix two problems :
> >
> > * Some configure scripts were not able to compile the test programs
> > used to test whether zlib was properly installed. The configure
> > scripts are properly using -lz, but the
> > -L/path/to/staging_dir/usr/lib option was not present, leading to
> > build failure.
> >
> > * While linking applications, for example the applications included
> > in the fontconfig package, I had build failures like :
> >
> > /usr/local/uclibc-0.9.28-2/arm/lib/gcc/arm-linux-uclibc/3.4.5/../../../../arm-linux-uclibc/bin/ld.real:
> > warning: libfreetype.so.6, needed by ../src/.libs/libfontconfig.so,
> > not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
> >
> > this is due to the fact that ld is not able to find the other
> > already installed shared libraries.
>
> May I have some feedback on this patch ? Without this, Buildroot is
> just unusable here.
FWIW, this patch looks good to me, but I'm far from the most
knowledgable person to comment.
g.
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