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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Chong Lu <Chong.Lu@windriver.com>
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On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 17:18 +0800, Chong Lu wrote:
> Some packages do not link successfully using shared libraries.
> When link something to libfl.so, we will get this:
> 
> 	libfl.so: undefined reference to `yylex'
> 
> So we only build static libraries to fix this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chong Lu <Chong.Lu@windriver.com>
> ---
>  .../files/flex-not-to-build-shared-libraries.patch | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-devtools/flex/flex.inc                |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/flex/files/flex-not-to-build-shared-libraries.patch

Why aren't the shared libraries working? Which packages show this
problem? Is this not a problem in the recipes using the shared
libraries?

At the very least this patch needs more explanation but I don't like the
idea.

Cheers,

Richard