[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/meson: Fix linking of shared/static libs with static libs

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

+Peter Seiderer in Cc. Peter, if you could review the below patch, it
would be nice.

On Tue, 14 May 2019 14:42:45 -0400
aduskett at gmail.com wrote:

> From: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>
> 
> From https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/3939:
> 
> This commit contains the following fixes:
> 
>   1. When a shared library A does link_with: to static library B, the
>      parts of B used by A will be added to A, and so we don't need to
>      return B in A.get_dependencies() for targets that link to A. This
>      already is the behaviour when a shared library A does link_whole:
>      on B.
> 
>   2. In situation (1), when generating a pkg-config file for A, we must
>      also not add B to Libs.private for A. This already is the behaviour
>      when a shared library A does link_whole: on B.
> 
>   3. When a static library A does link_whole: to static library B, we
>      must add the objects in B to A.
> 
>   4. When a static library A does link_with: to static library B, and
>      B is not installed (which makes it an internal static library), we
>      must add the objects in B to A, otherwise nothing can use A.
> 
>   5. In situation (4), when generating a pkg-config file for A, we must
>      also not add B to Libs.private for A.
> 
> Without this patch, static builds of libglib2 and gstreamer using the
> meson build system will not compile and link properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>

Adam: is this for next or master ? Since libglib2 and gstreamer in
master are still using autotools, I would suppose this patch is for
next. Could you confirm ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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