[OE-core] building wxwidgets under oe-core

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Brian Lloyd <blloyd at familyhonor.net> wrote:
> Before going to the core methodology, the classic openembedded had
> support for building wxwidgets.
>
> That library is one that does not appear to have been picked back up
> since the refactoring of the code, either because there wasn't much
> interest or else it proved hard to do.
>
> When I tried it myself, I found that the autotools class assumed use of
> all parts of autotools, which unfortunately wxwidgets doesn't do.  It
> almost looks like I would have to write a custom class (or include it
> all in the wxwidgets packet/includes) that only calls configure instead
> of trying to do autoreconf (as well as deleting the bakefile generated
> acinclude.m4).
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions how to fit these two systems together
> smoothly in a way that is likely future change resistant?  Is making a
> custom class like configure_only.bbclass a good idea?  After all, the

I think we would like to reconfigure since it then gets the wanted
libtool macros
and so on. We use libtool 2.4 and if package has old libtool macros that may
not go well if you dont refresh them

> tar files for wxWidgets doesn't have the issues that the forced
> autoreconf is trying to avoid but the attempt to fix the issue is
> bringing in all sorts of added files/dependencies required.  Or is there
> a way to use the autotools class which will ensure the hack code does
> not fire?
>

you can always override do_configure () { oe_runconf } sort of thing see
how binutils or gcc does it.


> Of course, if someone has already made this work and it's somewhere I
> missed, a pointer to where it is would be greatly appreciated.
>
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> Brian Lloyd
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