Re: Issues building tinyXML

[Jack Mitchell <ml@communistcode.co.uk>]

On 06/09/12 15:59, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 15:53 +0100, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>> I'm failing to be able to build tinyXML which it seems is required for
>> XBMC after it was dropped from their internal tree. The package just has
>> a Makefile and all in all seems a bit sketchy at best. Has anyone come
>> across an error like this before:
>>
>>      DEBUG: Executing shell function do_compile
>>      NOTE: make -j 7 -e MAKEFLAGS=
>>      arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld
>>      --sysroot=/home/jack/Projects/poky-rasp/raspberry/tmp/sysroots/raspberrypi
>>      -o xmltest -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed tinyxml.o
>>      tinyxmlparser.o xmltest.o tinyxmlerror.o tinystr.o
>>      arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld: unrecognized option '-Wl,-O1'
>>      arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld: use the --help option for usage information
>>      make: *** [xmltest] Error 1
> It's using ${LD} where it should be using ${CCLD}.  This is, admittedly,
> confusing since one would tend to naïvely assume that ${LDFLAGS} is
> intended for consumption by ${LD} but that is not in fact the case.
>
> I'm not actually sure that there are any places where ${LD} is the right
> thing to use.  Maybe that variable should be deleted.
>
> p.

So, would the best way to fix it be something like:

do_compile() {
     run_oemake LD="${CCLD}"
}

I'm really only just getting into this so please excuse my naivety.

Thanks,

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   Jack Mitchell (jack@embed.me.uk)
   Embedded Systems Engineer
   http://www.embed.me.uk

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