Re: [PATCH] ncurses-native: install to libdir, not base_libdir

[Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>]

On 16/01/12 09:45, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 01/16/2012 07:32 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Enrico Scholz
>> <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>>> Christopher Larson<kergoth-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>>> writes:
>>>
>>>> --- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
>>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
>>>> ...
>>>> +# natives don't generally look in base_libdir
>>>> +base_libdir_virtclass-native = "${libdir}"
>>>
>>> I do not think that this should be done per recipe (afais, at least
>>> libusb is affected by the same issue).
>>>
>>> Adding '-L<baselibdir>' and the '-Wl,-rpath-link' + '-Wl,-rpath' options
>>> to BUILD_LDFLAGS would be a more general solution.
>>
>> Alternatively, could simplify the layout of the native sysroot and
>> adjust things in the native class. It could make a certain amount of
>> sense, as it makes more sense for our structure for native to match
>> the host than it does the target.
>
> So, Chris, are you going to implement this and do we drop the ncurses
> patch for now?

We need to merge something to resolve this issue sooner rather than 
later, I had to apply this change in order to build on a system without 
ncurses installed.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre