[Buildroot] Building the Rockchip libv4l plugin

[Peter Seiderer]

Hello Baruch,

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 11:22:11 +0300, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:

> Hi Buildroot list,
> 
> I'm trying to build the Rockchip libv4l2 plugin in Buildroot. The source is at
> 
>   https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/libv4lplugins/+/master/libv4l-rockchip_v2/
> 
> As upstream indicated[1], the code is meant to build as part of libv4l, not as 
> a standalone library. ChromiumOS sees to copy the code into the libv4l source 
> tree, and modify the relevant build configuration files[2].
> 
> What would be the best way to do that in Buildroot? A symlink to the plugin 
> source tree? Copy of the code to libv4l?

...or add a configure.ac/configure file to the source?

Regards,
Peter

> 
> Is there any other package doing something similar?
> 
> Thanks,
> baruch
> 
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-rockchip/2018-July/021107.html
> 
> [2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay/+/master/media-libs/libv4lplugins/libv4lplugins-9999.ebuild
>