[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/knock: fix static build with libusb

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2014-06-22 19:08 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 19:04:56 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > 
> > knock depends on libpcap, that has an optional dependency on libusb.
> > Alas, libpcap does not install a .pc file, so knock does not know
> > that it should link with -lusb-1.0.
> > 
> > When linking dynamically, this is not an issue, since the linker does
> > follow the DT_NEEDED tags of libpcap, and thus pulls libusb-1.0 in at
> > the same time. And since linusb uses threads, libpthread is pulled in
> > as well.
> > 
> > However, when linking statically, all of this fails.
> > 
> > Fix that by telling knock's ./configure what libraries to link with
> > when doing a static build and libusb is enabled.
> > 
> > Fixes:
> >     http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/1eb/1eb877ebd9469c9261bf114fc7733819ae3fd562/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>
> > ---
> >  package/knock/knock.mk | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/knock/knock.mk b/package/knock/knock.mk
> > index 8d2b41e..ace23fa 100644
> > --- a/package/knock/knock.mk
> > +++ b/package/knock/knock.mk
> > @@ -10,4 +10,8 @@ KNOCK_LICENSE = GPLv2+
> >  KNOCK_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
> >  KNOCK_DEPENDENCIES = libpcap
> >  
> > +ifeq ($(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB)$(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUSB),yy)
> > +KNOCK_CONF_OPT = LIBS="-lusb-1.0 -pthread"
> > +endif
> 
> Thanks. However, I've already stated that before, but I continue to
> wonder if this is the right way to fix this. Shouldn't we instead fix
> libcap by adding a .pc file and submit that upstream, instead of adding
> more and more LIBS="-lblah" all over the place? Of course, that's not
> a comment targeted specifically at your patch (we're doing the same
> thing for many other packages), but I'm wondering if that's the right
> thing to do.

Well, in an ideal world, that'd be good. But even if libpcap did provide
a .pc file, then we'd need to patch knock to use pkg-config, which it
currently does not.

But I anyway withdraw this patch, in favour to the one recently sent by
Baruch:
    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/362567/

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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