Re: [v4l-utils] Add configure option to allow qv4l2 disable

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 31-05-2012 13:29, Ezequiel Garcia escreveu:
> Hi Gregor,
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> On 5/30/12 3:42 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>>>
>>> This patch could ease the job of a few people,
>>> by providing an option they actually need.
>>> OpenWRT [1] and Openembedded [2] are already disabling
>>> qv4l2 by applying ugly patches.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/libs/libv4l/patches/004-disable-qv4l2.patch
>>> [2] http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/21469/
>>
>>
>> What's the purpose of this patch? As far as I can see it saves compile time
>> if Qt4 development stuff is installed. Otherwise building qv4l should be
>> skipped.
> 
> I just found that people were applying patches to disable qv4l2 compilation.
> In [2] you'll find this message: "The makefiles in the project attempt
> to use the hosts' compilers if
> qmake is installed." Perhaps, this was due to an old bug that's already solved.
> 
> So: I'm not sure if patch is useful, but I thought I could send it
> anyway and let you decide ;)

Yeah, compiling qv4l2 on embedded distros may be hard.
I'll apply it.

Regards,
Mauro