Re: [PATCH] qemu: OpenSUSE 13.2 configure error

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 11:32 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 30 June 2015 at 01:16, Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky@intel.com>
> wrote:
>         Qemu configure tests for the presence/existance of SDL by
>         trying to link against libSDL. libSDL in turn attempts to load
>         libcrypt which will then attempt to load libgpg-error.
>         The bitbaked libgpg-error will be built with ABI incompatible
>         with the one required by libcrypt.
>         The remedy is to force qemu configure to use the host's
>         libgpg-error instead. This is achieved by modifying the linker
>         library search order.
>
> I think seeing this summary will send Saul into a quivering wreck as
> this was a massive source of pain in the previous release.
> Interesting solution but I'd like Saul's opinion.
> 
If backporting this means we don't have to reconfigure the autobuilder
to run old releases, Saul, Beth and I are likely all in favour.
> 
> The patch should probably only be applied for native and nativesdk
> builds, as I suspect that's going to break a target build quite badly.
> Also, it needs signed-of-by and upstream-status (inappropriate, I
> imagine) tags in the patch header.

It needs a description and the patch should be native only, not
nativesdk which should link against the sysroot.

Cheers,

Richard