[Buildroot] [PATCH] ilixi: new package

[Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>]

Hi Justin,

On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:37:03AM -0600, Justin Berger wrote:
> What is the reason for CXXFLAGS over CPPFLAGS?

CPPFLAGS is usually for options that affect the C pre-processor. The most 
common pre-processor options are -I (include path), and -D (for macros). 
CXXFLAGS is for C++ options like -std=c++11. See 
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Implicit-Variables.html.

> I'm not sure why exactly but this package in particular doesn't seem to look 
> at CXXFLAGS if CPPFLAGS is present (which it is due to the autotools-package 
> internals it seems), and so doesn't catch the C++11 flag and won't compile 
> after that.

Unfortunately configure.ac does

  CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"

which overwrites the environment CXXFLAGS. It should have been

  CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $CFLAGS"

In this case I think you should use CFLAGS.

> I was a little unsure on best practice for setting that flag, so I
> basically just copied what directfb.mk does on line 132; where it uses
> CPPFLAGS.

That's because this line adds a pre-processor -I option.

> Although searching through I see sort of an even spread of CXX vs CPP among 
> autotools packages. But if there is a way to go with CXXFLAGS and have it 
> work, I have no preference one way or the other.

baruch

> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:47:16PM -0600, Justin Berger wrote:
> > >
> > +################################################################################
> > > +#
> > > +# ilixi
> > > +#
> > >
> > +################################################################################
> > > +
> > > +ILIXI_VERSION = 1.0.0
> > > +ILIXI_SITE = http://ilixi.org/releases
> > > +ILIXI_LICENSE = LGPLv3+, GPLV3+ (osk utf8-decoder)
> > > +ILIXI_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.LESSER COPYING
> > > +ILIXI_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
> > > +
> > > +ILIXI_DEPENDENCIES =         \
> > > +     libsigc         \
> > > +     libxml2         \
> > > +     directfb        \
> > > +     fontconfig      \
> > > +
> > > +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_SAWMAN),y)
> > > +     ILIXI_CONF_OPTS += --enable-sawman
> > > +     ILIXI_DEPENDENCIES += sawman
> > > +else
> > > +     ILIXI_CONF_OPTS += --disable-sawman
> > > +endif
> > > +
> > > +ILIXI_CONF_ENV = CPPFLAGS="$(TARGET_CPPFLAGS) -std=c++11"
> >
> > Should be CXXFLAGS and TARGET_CXXFLAGS.

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