From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P39FQ-0000we-3J for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:16:09 +0200 Received: from svr-orw-exc-08.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.97]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1P39F1-0006Pq-Uc from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:15:43 -0700 Received: from na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com ([134.86.114.213]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-08.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:15:43 -0700 Received: from [172.30.80.69] ([172.30.80.69]) by na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:15:42 -0600 Message-ID: <4CAB4112.3070505@mentor.com> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:15:30 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <1286264643-6352-1-git-send-email-raj.khem@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Oct 2010 15:15:42.0494 (UTC) FILETIME=[2D2203E0:01CB64A0] X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.94.38.131 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: Tom_Rini@mentor.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] libtool 2.4 upgrade X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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, 05 Oct 2010 15:16:09 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Koen Kooi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05-10-10 09:43, Khem Raj wrote: >> Hi >> >> Following set of patches is intial support for getting libtool 2.4 into >> openemebedded. I have so far built minimal-image for two machines successfully >> >> The big change that libtool 2.4 brings is sysroot support and I have added >> support to use this feature. It should make our life easier. > > I'm a bit concerned about the way this is implemented, it seems to for > libtool 2.4 onto everyone since it changes e.g. autotools.bbclass. Is > that intended? If so we need signoffs from each and every distro > maintainer *and* from the maemo-compat folks as well. > Unless there is a way to make the new features conditional on the > libtool version. It shouldn't be too bad, implementation wise, to set LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT or similar and test for that. But can we also set a phase out date for older libtool, even if maemo-compat isn't possible (given chinhook pins to 1.5, I bet it's not) ? -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation