Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/libsoup: add choice between libsoup2 and libsoup3

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Thomas,

Thanks for your patch.

On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 22:42:35 +0100
Thomas Devoogdt <thomas.devoogdt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Libsoup3 has a new API [1], packages using libsoup2 may not
> compile with libsoup3 or may crash at runtime in unexpected
> ways. So the default will (for now) stay on libsoup2.
> A tracking table for the migration can be found here [2].

A "choice" is not going to work well, as it means that in a given
configuration we will only be able to install either packages that need
libsoup2 *or* packages that libsoup3, bit not a mix of both.

Is it possible to install both libsoup2 and libsoup3 side-by-side in
the same system? This requires them having a different library name and
a different location for header files.

If that's the case, we will definitely want to have a separate libsoup3
package, so that we can install libsoup and libsoup3 side by side in
the same system.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
_______________________________________________
buildroot mailing list
buildroot@buildroot.org
https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot