From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:14:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 11/19] infra-libtool: pass sysroot information to libtool In-Reply-To: <8e7692b2-4ebc-d533-8eda-d4a92fd2a7f8@mind.be> References: <1482241596-31688-1-git-send-email-jezz@sysmic.org> <1482241596-31688-12-git-send-email-jezz@sysmic.org> <20170320225250.0a5bd659@free-electrons.com> <8e7692b2-4ebc-d533-8eda-d4a92fd2a7f8@mind.be> Message-ID: <20170322091437.7ebd63bf@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:57:39 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > So are you sure that this feature didn't appear in libtool 2.4 ? > > Yeah, looks like it. E.g. speex has libtool 1.5, and it doesn't have any > sysroot support (not in configure, not in ltmain.sh). > > Obviously, *this* patch is not affected by it - it certainly doesn't hurt to > pass the --with-sysroot configure option. It's only patches 12+13 that we > wouldn't be able to remove. > > However, considering: > > - most packages install things in /usr/lib, which is already searched by default; > > - most packages use libtool 2.4 or later, > > I think we can take the risk. The autobuilders will discover any issues, which > we can fix per package (e.g. with AUTORECONF = YES). Since I would prefer to avoid autoreconfiguring many packages, it would be useful to know how many packages are still using libtool versions earlier than 2.4. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com