[Buildroot] [PATCH] alsa-lib: FLAT: Disable alsa lib when FLAT bianry is selected.

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Nov 11 10:43:44 UTC 2013


Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:31:37 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> On 11/11/2013 07:21 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > I am not sure this is the right dependency. Shouldn't this instead be a:
> > 
> > 	depends on !BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB
> > 
> >  ?
> > 
> > The problem is really that we need shared library support, no that
> > specifically the FLAT binary format is causing problems. If another
> > binary format doesn't support shared libraries, then we would have to
> > exclude it as well.
> > 
> > Also, the configure script of alsa-lib has a check to verify if dlfcn.h
> > is available or not, so I guess it is supposed to fallback gracefully
> > to another solution if shared library support is not available.
> 
> And with that being said this depend should also propagate to all the
> packages that select alsa-lib too.

Which is why I'd like to have a deeper investigation on why alsa-lib
unconditionally need <dlfcn.h> :-)

Thomas
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