[Buildroot] [PATCH v5 11/19] infra-libtool: pass sysroot information to libtool

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 22-03-17 09:14, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:57:39 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
>>> So are you sure that this feature didn't appear in libtool 2.4 ?  
>>
>>  Yeah, looks like it. E.g. speex has libtool 1.5, and it doesn't have any
>> sysroot support (not in configure, not in ltmain.sh).
>>
>>  Obviously, *this* patch is not affected by it - it certainly doesn't hurt to
>> pass the --with-sysroot configure option. It's only patches 12+13 that we
>> wouldn't be able to remove.
>>
>>  However, considering:
>>
>> - most packages install things in /usr/lib, which is already searched by default;
>>
>> - most packages use libtool 2.4 or later,
>>
>> I think we can take the risk. The autobuilders will discover any issues, which
>> we can fix per package (e.g. with AUTORECONF = YES).
> 
> Since I would prefer to avoid autoreconfiguring many packages, it would
> be useful to know how many packages are still using libtool versions
> earlier than 2.4.

 I'm doing an allyesconfig download and will check the ltmain.sh in all the
tarballs. It will take some time before that finishes.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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