[Buildroot] [PATCH] gst1-plugins-imx: add package

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Fri Oct 17 21:39:38 UTC 2014


Gary, All,

On 2014-10-17 14:28 -0700, Gary Bisson spake thusly:
> On 10/17/2014 02:07 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >[snip]
> >No you can't do that, because BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX6Q
> >is part of a choice, and you can not select a choice entry.
> >
> >So a 'depends on' it must be in this case.
> >
> >Not sure what to do about the comment, though. We currently have no such
> >case documented in the manual; only comments about toolchain deps are
> >described...
> >
> >I'm not against adding comments about dependencies on other packages,
> >but I think we should keep them to a minimal level, like dependencies on
> >biggish stuff (like X.org), or non-obvious stuff.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Yann E. MORIN.
> 
> I agree that a dependency seemed like the only option. Regarding the comment
> it was more about showing the package exists.
> Although doing a search will tell you about it and its dependencies I'm
> afraid people would think the package is missing.
> As a comparison the Gstreamer 0.10 fsl plugin always shows up as it does not
> depend on iMX6 GPU libs.
> 
> Anyway, would it make sense for me to offer a patch v2 or should we wait to
> agree first on modifications?

Yup, let people get back home from Düsseldorf and get some rest aftert
the heavy use they put their neurons at during LinuxCon/ELCE this past
week... ;-)

> So far I have listed those modifications to be made on the current version:
> - Use of github helper macro
> - Modify package comment with Peter S. original patch
> - Remove eglibc dependency (already from GPU libs)

Are we sure gst1-plugins-imx does not itself require glibc?
If there are pre-built libraries, check they are not linked with
libc.so.6:
    readelf -d libgst-imx-something.so

> But I am still unclear on two items:
> - Package naming: although Peter K. did prefer gstreamer1-imx over
> gstreamer-imx [1], gst1-plugins-imx still looks closer to BR plugin naming.
> Also consider the Yocto recipe name [2] which is gstreamer1.0-plugins-imx,
> pretty close from gst1-plugins-imx.

Well, gst1-plugins-imx seems quite correctly aligned to existing
packages names, so I'd vote for that.

> - Comments: comments on package dependencies could be removed at first and
> if people find it confusing we could work on it later.

Agreed.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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