Re: [media-ctl PATCH] Fix linking of shared libraries

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the patch, and sorry for the late reply.

On Tuesday 19 February 2013 22:03:53 Andreas Bombe wrote:
> When using libudev, it is actually libmediactl that uses it and not the
> media-ctl executable. libv4l2subdev uses functions from libmediactl and
> therefore needs to be linked against it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>

and pushed to the repository.

> ---
> 
> In light of their relative simplicity as well as cross dependency, does
> it make sense to keep libmediactl and libv4l2subdev as separate
> libraries?

I think it does, as libmediactl is supposed to be media-agnostic. I'm working 
on a media device enumeration library that will likely result in all those 
libraries being rearchitectured, I'll keep the question in mind.

>  src/Makefile.am |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
> index 2583464..f754763 100644
> --- a/src/Makefile.am
> +++ b/src/Makefile.am
> @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
>  lib_LTLIBRARIES = libmediactl.la libv4l2subdev.la
>  libmediactl_la_SOURCES = mediactl.c
> +libmediactl_la_CFLAGS = $(LIBUDEV_CFLAGS)
> +libmediactl_la_LDFLAGS = $(LIBUDEV_LIBS)
>  libv4l2subdev_la_SOURCES = v4l2subdev.c
> +libv4l2subdev_la_LIBADD = libmediactl.la
>  mediactl_includedir=$(includedir)/mediactl
>  mediactl_include_HEADERS = mediactl.h v4l2subdev.h
> 
>  bin_PROGRAMS = media-ctl
> -media_ctl_CFLAGS = $(LIBUDEV_CFLAGS)
> -media_ctl_LDFLAGS = $(LIBUDEV_LIBS)
>  media_ctl_SOURCES = main.c options.c options.h tools.h
>  media_ctl_LDADD = libmediactl.la libv4l2subdev.la
> -
-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart