[Buildroot] [PATCH V2 1/2] tcl: add support for static builds

[Vicente Olivert Riera]

Dear Thomas Petazzoni,

On 07/03/15 14:42, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Vicente Olivert Riera,
> 
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 13:22:41 +0000, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
> 
>> +ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
>> +# Do not build tclsh with dynamic loading support when building it
>> +# statically because it needs dlopen() and friends.
>> +TCL_CONF_OPTS += --disable-load
>> +# Also, build only the binaries and libraries and don't build the
>> +# 'packages' because they are shared objects which are intended to be
>> +# loaded dynamically.
>> +TCL_MAKE_OPTS = binaries libraries
>> +TCL_INSTALL_STAGING_OPTS = DESTDIR=$(STAGING_DIR) install-binaries install-libraries
>> +TCL_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS = DESTDIR=$(TARGET_DIR) install-binaries
>> +endif
> 
> But, if we don't build the 'packages', is the tcl stuff still useful?

I guess you could need tcl to build something that depends on it, and
link against libtcl8.6.a, for instance.

Regards,
--
Vincent

> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
>