From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by linuxtogo.org with smtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JCHcE-00072t-Iv for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:47:50 +0100 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Jan 2008 16:40:48 -0000 Received: from e178115083.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO [192.168.4.101]) [85.178.115.83] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 08 Jan 2008 17:40:48 +0100 X-Authenticated: #17532834 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX193I8MXr2B3t6+11PyYjUBLZsd/0fUX9UgDJmF0I4 EClBY5jjXGnhGS Message-ID: <4783A78E.9030405@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:40:46 +0100 From: Robert Schuster User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <47836C9B.3000407@gmx.net> <1199798327.6053.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1199798327.6053.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: RFC: add osso version of libtool and libatk X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:47:51 -0000 X-Groupsio-MsgNum: 3821 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6022689C2FA9BF4B1B62B5CD" --------------enig6022689C2FA9BF4B1B62B5CD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, with Holger's help I pulled out an old version of libtool 1.5.6. I added it to the tree again with DEFAULT_PREFERENCE =3D "-1" and a note for why it exists ... I'll have a look at unifying the libtool recipes later. They all look very similar indeed ... Regards Robert Richard Purdie schrieb: > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 13:29 +0100, Robert Schuster wrote: >> on IRC it was suggested to put this on the mailing list. >> >> I want some osso versions (Maemo-specific) of some software packages i= n >> OE to be able to build compatible packages: >> >> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D3384 >> >> If no one objects I would like to apply the patches there. >=20 > I have two concerns: >=20 > a) libtool at least duplicates a lot of recipe, we should be encouragin= g > more .inc usage. > b) packages is becoming large and unwieldy >=20 > There could be a case for splitting packages into say: >=20 > packages/=20 > packages-gpe/ > packages-maemo/ > packages-openmoko/ > packages-opie/ >=20 > Sadly these two points don't work well together since .inc/patch sharin= g > with collections enabled doesn't work. This is something I think we nee= d > to fix as a priority. >=20 > The advantage to b) is I can then remove groups of files from the > equation easily and speed up parsing and reduce the chances of bad > things like maemo packages breaking my normal ones... >=20 > This disadvantage is that you end up with libtool in two places and if > one is updated, the other could be missed. >=20 > Reluctantly I'd therefore say it could be committed now if an .inc file= > is created for libtool and maybe improved for atk but we should conside= r > the wider issue. >=20 > I'd also make a case for given vendor 'hacked' versions a > DEFAULT_PREFERENCE =3D "-1" so you have to explicitly select them. >=20 > Cheers, >=20 > Richard >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel >=20 --------------enig6022689C2FA9BF4B1B62B5CD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFHg6eOG9cfwmwwEtoRCKRfAJ4tGH4dao2C9PIQPWMJ+ncFpVRu7wCYoiKh wWPMEM+fah57DjS2zQ9zyw== =mTS5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6022689C2FA9BF4B1B62B5CD--