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[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 05/12/13 17:07, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:59:31 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
>
>>>        bfin |              xlib_libX11-1.5.0 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/a47c5d96f880af04b85bb6773e87d04f9d7c2864/
>>
>> The problem here is that xlib_libX11 needs dlfcn.h and dlopen, thus
>> !BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB.
>> Adding this 'depends on !BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB' to
>> package/x11r7/xlib_libX11 is the solution here. However, this requires
>> propagating this dependency to all packages that 'select' the
>> xlib_libX11 package, which is a very large amount of packages (105),
>> most of which are other X packages.
>>
>> Is this the way to go or is there a special handling of X packages
>> that I'm not aware of?
>> For example, should we simply add this dependency to the entire set of
>> X11 packages at package/x11r7/Config.in?
>> This would greatly reduce the amount of 'depends on
>> !BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB' additions, but may be too coarse-grained as
>> not every X11 library necessarily needs shared libraries (unless of
>> course xlib_libX11 is a dependency on all these libraries, I did not
>> check that).
>
> If xlib_libX11 needs shared library, then I believe there is no point
> in trying to use X.org on systems that don't support shared libraries,
> since xlib_libX11 is the fundamental library for X clients.
>
> Therefore, I would also suggest to simply disable all x11r7 packages
> when BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB is set.

  +1

  Cfr. 6c10f4 "xorg: needs thread support". That patch started out adding 
depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS to a few packages, but with all the 
reverse dependencies it was easier to just disable it for all or x11r7.


  Regards,
  Arnout


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