[OE-core] fontconfig-2.8.0/fix_pkgconfig.patch

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> Does anybody know where this patch came from or what it is supposed to
> be achieving?  As far as I have been able to tell with some limited git
> archaeology, it seems to have originated from Poky in the
> fontconfig-2.6.0 sort of timeframe but that's about all I have been able
> to find out.
>
> The actual content of the patch is:
>
> -Libs.private: @LIBXML2_LIBS@ @EXPAT_LIBS@ @FREETYPE_LIBS@ @ICONV_LIBS@
> +Libs.private: @LIBXML2_LIBS@ @EXPAT_LIBS@ -L{libdir} -lfreetype @ICONV_LIBS@
>

it could be that it was needed to pacify libtool in a cross env but
may not be needed now
that libtool knows sysroot.

> ... which, as far as I can tell, is just completely bogus.  The added
> "-L{libdir}" is causing cmake to blow up if it tries to inspect the
> private libs for fontconfig to anything that depends on it: it's
> arguably a bug in cmake that it can't tolerate {} there, but it seems
> fairly clear that this patch in its current form can't be producing any
> useful effect.
>
> p.
>
>
>
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