[Buildroot] [PATCH] stella: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:46:47 -0300, Sergio Prado wrote:
> Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergio Prado <sergio.prado at e-labworks.com>

Thanks for this contribution! Just curious, what are you doing with an
Atari emulator in Buildroot ? :-)

See some comments below.

> diff --git a/package/stella/0001-Add-cross-compilation-support.patch b/package/stella/0001-Add-cross-compilation-support.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f75b88a46985
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/stella/0001-Add-cross-compilation-support.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
> +From 4d1087d29606c092919dd4375df674521af31c9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Sergio Prado <sergio.prado at e-labworks.com>
> +Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:36:21 -0300
> +Subject: [PATCH] Add cross-compilation support
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Sergio Prado <sergio.prado at e-labworks.com>

It would be nice to submit this patch upstream.

> +---
> + Makefile  | 2 +-
> + configure | 5 +++--
> + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> +
> +diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> +index 6dd0129587b3..b1aea5eed4a1 100644
> +--- a/Makefile
> ++++ b/Makefile
> +@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ config.mak: $(srcdir)/configure
> + 
> + install: all
> + 	$(INSTALL) -d "$(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)"
> +-	$(INSTALL) -c -s -m 755 "$(srcdir)/stella$(EXEEXT)" "$(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/stella$(EXEEXT)"
> ++	$(INSTALL) -c -m 755 "$(srcdir)/stella$(EXEEXT)" "$(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/stella$(EXEEXT)"

This is not directly related to cross-compilation support, so it could
ideally be part of a separate patch.

> + 	$(INSTALL) -d "$(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)"
> + 	$(INSTALL) -c -m 644 "$(srcdir)/Announce.txt" "$(srcdir)/Changes.txt" "$(srcdir)/Copyright.txt" "$(srcdir)/License.txt" "$(srcdir)/README-SDL.txt" "$(srcdir)/Readme.txt" "$(srcdir)/Todo.txt" "$(srcdir)/docs/index.html" "$(srcdir)/docs/debugger.html" "$(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/"
> + 	$(INSTALL) -d "$(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/graphics"
> +diff --git a/configure b/configure
> +index 0d90a4f0acde..a4afea8e1880 100755
> +--- a/configure
> ++++ b/configure
> +@@ -502,8 +502,9 @@ if test -n "$_host"; then
> + 			_host_os=win32
> + 			;;
> + 		*)
> +-			echo "Cross-compiling to unknown target, please add your target to configure."
> +-			exit 1
> ++			echo "Cross-compiling to $_host target"
> ++			DEFINES="$DEFINES -DUNIX"
> ++			_host_os=unix
> + 			;;
> + 	esac
> + 	
> +-- 
> +1.9.1
> +
> diff --git a/package/stella/Config.in b/package/stella/Config.in
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..0bb96db68fbb
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/stella/Config.in
> @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_STELLA
> +	bool "stella"
> +	select BR2_PACKAGE_SDL2

sdl2 depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS, so you must inherit this dependency
here.

> +	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
> +	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 # C++11
> +	help
> +	  Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator.
> +
> +	  http://stella.sourceforge.net/
> +
> +comment "stella needs a toolchain w/ C++, gcc >= 4.8"
> +	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8
> diff --git a/package/stella/stella.hash b/package/stella/stella.hash
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..71defd28d0f2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/stella/stella.hash
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +# Locally computed:
> +sha256 b2727a0e2d3b112d35dcb89b4bdc789e2c7f15e9d9c7054a69a2f67facd7416e  stella-4.7.2-src.tar.xz
> diff --git a/package/stella/stella.mk b/package/stella/stella.mk
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..789a586bfd99
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/stella/stella.mk
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +################################################################################
> +#
> +# stella
> +#
> +################################################################################
> +
> +STELLA_VERSION = 4.7.2
> +STELLA_SOURCE = stella-$(STELLA_VERSION)-src.tar.xz
> +STELLA_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/stella
> +LIBFOO_LICENSE = GPLv2

According to Copyright.txt, it's GPLv2 or later, so this variable
should contain "GPLv2+".

> +LIBFOO_LICENSE_FILES = License.txt

This should contain Copyright.txt as well.

> +
> +STELLA_DEPENDENCIES = sdl2
> +
> +STELLA_CONF_OPTS = --with-sdl-prefix=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr
> +
> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBPNG),y)
> +STELLA_DEPENDENCIES += libpng
> +endif
> +
> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB),y)
> +STELLA_DEPENDENCIES += zlib
> +endif

Both libpng and zlib are in fact mandatory. If they are not available,
stella uses bundled versions. Since in Buildroot we don't like using
bundled version, I'd prefer to have an unconditionally dependency on
libpng and zlib.

> +$(eval $(autotools-package))

This last line is actually the biggest problem: this package is *not*
an autotools package. Its configure script is not generated by
autoconf, its Makefiles are not generated by automake. So it should be
handled by the generic-package infrastructure.

Yes, I know it *happens* that this package currently works with the
autotools-package infra. But in the future, we might make changes to
the autotools-package infra that are perfectly valid and correct for
real autotools packages, but turn out to break the build of packages
like stella that "look like" autotools but aren't. For this reason, I
prefer to use generic-package for those non-autotools packages.

Could you rework the stella package to take into account those comments?

Thanks a lot!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com