[Buildroot] Analysis of build results for 2014-04-20

[Eric Le Bihan]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 07:17:03PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Eric, All,
>
> On 2014-04-21 19:03 +0200, Eric Le Bihan spake thusly:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 04:24:44PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > Thomas, All,
> > >
> > > On 2014-04-21 11:49 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> > > > >        arm |                  cairo-1.12.10 | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/2cb13a5bb92dabed219d49f49f0b9a2dfe65a0ca/
> > > >
> > > > cairo-gl-private.h:287:5: error: unknown type name 'GLchar'
> > > >
> > > > Could some OpenGL person look into this? Paul ? Yann ?
> > >
> > > With only a cursory look and a bit of Google-fuu, it looks like we need
> > > a full OpenGL provider in this case.
> >
> > In fact, looking at src/cairo-gl-private.h, we can see that GLchar is used in
> > functions related to shader loading. But the gl2.h file from sunxi-mali
> > defines prototypes using "char" where the official header from the Khronos
> > Group uses "GLchar". The gl2.h from Raspberry userland uses GLchar.
> >
> > So the issue is with Sunxi Mali and has been fixed upstream:
> > https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-mali/commit/b36c94609c3a335c5bbe2019a8e8a1b261786b30
>
> Nice! Care to send a patch bumping sunxi-mali?

Too bad, the pull request fixing the issue has not been merged yet! So I'll
only post a small patch for sunxi-mali header files, as the pull request also
covers the *.pc files issue, which has not been acked by upstream yet.

Best regards,
ELB