[OE-core] [PATCH 2/4] ICU: add pkgconfig support

[Saul Wold]

On 12/10/2012 05:07 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> On 12/10/2012 08:48 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/04/2012 12:46 AM, Qi.Chen at windriver.com wrote:
>>>>
<SNIP>
>>>>               "
>>>>    SRC_URI = "${BASE_SRC_URI} \
>>>>               file://noldlibpath.patch \
>>>> @@ -28,6 +29,12 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig binconfig
>>>>    do_configure() {
>>>>        libtoolize --force
>>>>        gnu-configize --force
>>>> +    if [ "${PN}" != "icu-native" ]; then
>>>> +        OLD=`pwd`
>>>> +        cd ${S}
>>>> +        autoconf
>>>> +        cd ${OLD}
>>>> +    fi
>>
>>
>> I had some time this morning to investigate this more deeply.  What I found
>> was that the ICU tarball was being delivered with a "configure" and that the
>> do_configure was avoiding the "autoconf" conversion of configure.in ->
>> configure.  I am not sure if this is historical or if this is truly needed.
>>
>> So by doing the autoconf above you changed the "configure" script, this in
>> turn caused some configuration changes to occur in the platform.h file.  Why
>> these changed (particularly the U_HAVE_NAMESPACE define) then caused the ICU
>> libraries to be built with different namespace.
>>
>> So a couple of key questions that need to be resolved:
>> 1) Will updating to 4.6 solve this issue, if not then we need to dive into 2
>> + 3 Below:
>>
>> 2) Why does icu tarball have a generated configure?
>>
>> 3) Why does the autoconf generated configure fail to configure things
>> correctly?
>>
>> Sau!
>>
> Also got this error but reported it to the wrong mailing list - sorry.
> I also looked around for this. The patch added pkg-config to icu. Just
> a guess: webkit-gtk fails due to a mixture of renamed symbols
> (EventListener_3_6 - see sysroot/usr/include/unicode/urename.h) and
> unrenamed symbols. Before the icu-patch this did not happen because
> (icu's) urename.h was not included and no symbols were renamed or
> renamed differently. My problem: The error gives me information about
> renamed symbol but I did not yet find the time to search for
> unrenamed. As I said: Just a guess
>
I am not sure that's it, the renaming is actually in the NAMESPACE, the 
older (no pkg-config) sets HAVE_NAMESPACE in the platform.h file and 
then the symbols have icu_2_6 in them, that's the real issue, which is 
caused by running autoconf and getting a bad/wrong "configure" script vs 
the one suplied in the tarball.

Sau!

> Andreas
>
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