[Buildroot] [PATCH] imagemagick: Ignore host's xml2-config

[Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>]

On 03/13/2012 02:16 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:

> On 03/13/2012 02:06 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> 
>> On 03/13/2012 01:53 PM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> "Markos" == Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com> writes:
>>>
>>>  Markos> If $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin is in the user's $PATH, and host-libxml2 is
>>>  Markos> installed, the configure script will find xml2-config in
>>>  Markos> $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin  and the xml2-config --prefix will return the
>>>  Markos> $(HOST_DIR)/usr. This is bad because imagemagick will append
>>>  Markos> -L$(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib to LDFLAGS and it will try to link against
>>>  Markos> the host's libraries instead of those located in the staging directory.
>>>
>>> Hmm, is this still a problem? We already have a libxml2 patch for
>>> imagemagick to ensure it picks up the target one, and we explicitly pass
>>> --without-xml if we're not building libxml2 for the target.
>>>
>>> Are you testing against buildroot git? From the the patch file name I
>>> would guess not. Could you retry with latest git and let me know if it
>>> is still needed?
>>>
>>
>> Are you referring to the imagemagick-6.6.4-8-use-xml2-config.patch? If
>> yes, this does not fix the problem because AC_CHECK_PROG() searches for
>> programmes in the $PATH and if $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/xml2-config is in the
>> path, it will find that and set xml2_config variable to $(HOST_DIR)/usr
>> which in turn sets LDFLAGS to -L{xml2_config}/lib
>>
> 
> Hmm I think you are right. The imagemagick-6.6.4-8-use-xml2-config.patch
> did not apply to my tree. Let me do some further testing and I will
> reply back
> 

Yes, for whatever reason the buildroot infrastructure ignored that patch
and never got applied. I guess my tree was broken somehow. Apologies for
the noise. Please ignore my patch.

-- 
markos