[Buildroot] [PATCH] gst1-plugins-imx: add package

[Gary Bisson <bisson.gary@gmail.com>]

Yann, All,

On 10/17/2014 02:07 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> [snip]
> No you can't do that, because BR2_PACKAGE_FREESCALE_IMX_PLATFORM_IMX6Q
> is part of a choice, and you can not select a choice entry.
>
> So a 'depends on' it must be in this case.
>
> Not sure what to do about the comment, though. We currently have no such
> case documented in the manual; only comments about toolchain deps are
> described...
>
> I'm not against adding comments about dependencies on other packages,
> but I think we should keep them to a minimal level, like dependencies on
> biggish stuff (like X.org), or non-obvious stuff.
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.

I agree that a dependency seemed like the only option. Regarding the 
comment it was more about showing the package exists.
Although doing a search will tell you about it and its dependencies I'm 
afraid people would think the package is missing.
As a comparison the Gstreamer 0.10 fsl plugin always shows up as it does 
not depend on iMX6 GPU libs.

Anyway, would it make sense for me to offer a patch v2 or should we wait 
to agree first on modifications?

So far I have listed those modifications to be made on the current version:
- Use of github helper macro
- Modify package comment with Peter S. original patch
- Remove eglibc dependency (already from GPU libs)

But I am still unclear on two items:
- Package naming: although Peter K. did prefer gstreamer1-imx over 
gstreamer-imx [1], gst1-plugins-imx still looks closer to BR plugin naming.
Also consider the Yocto recipe name [2] which is 
gstreamer1.0-plugins-imx, pretty close from gst1-plugins-imx.
- Comments: comments on package dependencies could be removed at first 
and if people find it confusing we could work on it later.

Regards,
Gary

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-February/090496.html
[2] 
https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/blob/master/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-imx_0.9.9.bb