[OE-core] [PATCH 2/4] xorg-driver-common: Add configure and install appends from meta-intel

[Burton, Ross]

On 5 September 2013 13:23, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 13:14 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> * Figuring out any runtime issues with dlopen is the hardest part and we
>> don't actually have real data on whether there are issues there or not.
>
> Do we have any particular reason to believe that there would be issues
> (and if so, what they might be)?  I guess it should be easy enough to
> gather data if we know what we're looking for.

There won't be any problems with dlopen() because that only looks at
.so files.  Any issues will be at build time, I wouldn't be surprised
if some dependencies changed due to a difference in eg pkgconfig vs
.la linkage.  Then again some other distros blanket-delete .la files
by default so I don't expect any critical problems.

>> * They are used in places, for example the darwin shlibs code currently
>> uses them. It could be updated to use otool these days mind but I'd
>> probably make the current code a fallback for unknown arches since it is
>> guaranteed to work everywhere.
>
> There's no reason in principle that folks on darwin (and/or
> hitherto-undiscovered architectures) couldn't retain the .la files if
> they wanted.  The original patch that I sent used a DISTRO_FEATURE to
> control this and those people building for darwin could simply refrain
> from setting it.  Alternatively we could make it explicitly conditional
> on TARGET_OS or some such if there are reasons to believe that some
> targets do genuinely require this stuff.

I don't think a distro feature is the right approach, but however it's
set can easily be forced using a machine override for Darwin.

Ross