[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 1/2] package/gobject-introspection: add package

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Aug 24 23:03:57 UTC 2017



On 22-08-17 12:57, Adam Duskett wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
[snip]
> Well, in the Yocto project, there's a patch named:
> Revert-an-incomplete-upstream-attempt-at-cross-compi.patch
> (I assume it should be Revert an incomplete upstream attempt at cross-compile
>  support).  So upstream is starting to try and get cross-compiling support built
> into gobject-introspection it looks like!

 Hm, could be interesting to work with upstream to really get cross-compilation
to work... But still, someone needs to do it :-)



>> [3] describes how it is solved in an OpenEmbedded layer. The interesting bit
>> from this one is that they have 4 separate packages. I don't think we need 4,
>> but 2 could be useful.
>>
> Is it possible to take most of the recipe from yocto and perhaps
> translate it into
> a make file that works for BuildRoot?

 Possibly, I haven't looked at the details. I also haven't looked at how they
deal with the kernel ABI issue in qemu-user. Perhaps it works just with glibc
and they assume that glibc is built with the very-old-kernel compatibility layer.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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