[Buildroot] ParaGUI package?

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Hartley Sweeten,

On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:37:40 +0000, Hartley Sweeten wrote:

> I was finally able to get paragui to compile with Buildroot using a POST_PATCH_HOOKS
> like was just done for the sdl package:
> 
> define PARAGUI_RUN_AUTOGEN
> 	cd $(@D) && ./autogen.sh
> endef
> 
> PARAGUI_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += PARAGUI_RUN_AUTOGEN

Humm, ok. This is not the nicest thing in the world, but oh well.

> Doing this I only needed 2 patches.
> 1) to use the correct sdl-config
> 2) to include <ostream> in a source file (I think this is needed because of a gcc 4.3.3 bug)
> 
> I was also able to get the package to compile using AUTORECONF = YES but that
> needed a lot more patches.

Which patches?

> 
> I can post the patch to add the paragui package but there is one issue. ParaGUI requires
> libsigc++ 1.2 (>= 1.2.5) but the current libsigc package in Buildroot is for libsigc++ 2.2 (2.2.11).
> The API is quite different between the 1.2 and 2.2 versions. So to get paragui to compile I
> had to also add a libsigc1 package (leaving the current libsigc as-is).
> 
> Is this acceptable? If so I can post 2 patches:

Yes, packaging libsigc1 separately is OK, since it has a different API
than libsigc.

Thanks,

Thomas
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