[Buildroot] Question: Multiple versions of a package.
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Oct 1 11:19:40 UTC 2011
Hello,
Le Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:21:02 -0500,
H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys at visionengravers.com> a écrit :
> Can a package/*/*.mk file be setup to handle two different versions
> of a package or should two separate package/* directories be created?
>
> I'm trying to add the ParaGUI package to buildroot. This is a widget
> toolkit library that uses SDL. It also needs libsigc++, which is
> available in packages/, but it's an incompatible version.
>
> The version of libsigc++ in buildroot is 2.2.8. ParaGUI needs
> libsigc++1.2 >= 1.2.5. It appears that even though these libraries
> do the same thing they have very different API's.
>
> A similar issue occurs with the new version of SDL. It has not been
> offically released yet but SDL1.2 and SDL1.3 (2.0?) use completely
> different APIs.
>
> What's that bast way to handle this situation?
There is basically two ways :
1) A single libsigc++ package, with a suboption to select the version
to be compiled. This solution does not allow two different versions
of libsigc++ to be built. For different versions of a library
having different ABIs, this solution is probably not appropriate.
2) Separate libsigc++ packages, with different names, like libsigc1
and libsigc2. This allows both versions to be built and installed
in the target, in case different applications require different
versions of the libsigc library.
I guess in your case, solution 2) is the only way. This is also what
traditional binary desktop distributions do.
Regards,
Thomas
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