[Buildroot] problems building vlc against git buildroot

[Buildroot] problems building vlc against git buildroot

[Andrew Dyer]

Hi, I am trying to get VLC to build against the current git buildroot.
 It complains about not finding libiconv (see build log attached).

I notice that the vlc Configure.in doesn't specify that the libiconv
package is required for vlc.  I patched this like so

diff --git a/package/multimedia/vlc/Config.in b/package/multimedia/vlc/Config.in
index c8faaa7..4c7c77c 100644
--- a/package/multimedia/vlc/Config.in
+++ b/package/multimedia/vlc/Config.in
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_VLC
        bool "vlc"
+       select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV
        help
          a free cross-platform media player

and rebuilt, and now I get a libiconv in output/target/usr/lib

$ ls target/usr/lib/libiconv*
target/usr/lib/libiconv.la  target/usr/lib/libiconv.so.2
target/usr/lib/libiconv.so  target/usr/lib/libiconv.so.2.4.0

but the VLC configure is not picking up that libiconv is available.

the attached build log was captured after I did the following:
Patched the vlc config.in as above, rm'd the entire output directory,
did a make and vlc build errored, verified that libiconv was in the
target filesystem, and then did 'make 2>&1 | tee make.log'
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[Buildroot] problems building vlc against git buildroot

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Dyer <amdyer@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 Andrew> but the VLC configure is not picking up that libiconv is available.

 Andrew> the attached build log was captured after I did the following:
 Andrew> Patched the vlc config.in as above, rm'd the entire output directory,
 Andrew> did a make and vlc build errored, verified that libiconv was in the
 Andrew> target filesystem, and then did 'make 2>&1 | tee make.log'

Have a look at output/build/vlc-0.8.6e/config.log and the corresponding
lines of configure to see how it tests for iconv and why it fails.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard