[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] sdl: fix building on powerpc64 and powerpc64le

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 13-11-16 18:13, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> Am Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:30:21 +1100 schrieb Sam Bobroff:
> 
>> How do those options sound? Any other suggestions?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> while investigating the build errors of the minidlna package
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/?reason=minidlna-1.1.5&arch=powerpc64le
> I came across this discussion.
> 
> The root cause of the build error is the fact that both libexif (last 
> release dates 2012-07-12) and libid3tag (last release dates 2004-02-18) 
> contain a .m4 file which does not detect shared libs support because of 
> the elf64ppc/elf64lppc problem. Autoreconf'ing libexif has its own 
> problems wrt $MKINSTALLDIRS so I would like to avoid it.
> 
> What about doing something similar Debian did back in 2014?
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2014/09/msg00041.html
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760395

 Nice idea, but it's only possible for internal toolchains. Unless if we merge
the ld-wrapper patches (last news of which was: it shouldn't be needed).

 I'm slightly inclined to go for patching configure or libtool.m4 instead.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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