[OE-core] freetype-config broken?

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-07-30 13:33, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:57:52AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2014-07-30 11:32, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>>> The behaviour of 'freetype-config' (from freetype-native) has
>>>> changed since this commit:
>>>>     commit 3476a49b10093c58b2f89e3d9a8527224f1bd7f6
>>>>     Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>>>>     Date:   Thu May 22 10:59:33 2014 +0100
>>>>       binconfig-disabled: Add class and use
>>>>
>>>> This is breaking my build of mplayer which uses freetype-config
>>>> to determine how to use the freetype library (in ./configure)
>>>>
>>>> The comment in the commit indicates that this is an improvement
>>>> and the path forward, but I don't see how to change the recipes
>>>> (and scripts, etc) that rely on this functionality to work in
>>>> this new mode.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>> add AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) to the configure.in or configure.ac
>>
>> I don't see how your suggestion helps.  This package (mplayer) doesn't
>> use autotools - it has a hand coded configure script, so there is
>> no configure.{in,ac}
>>
>> I also looked through the logs and didn't see any recipe which uses
>> a package that is now marked as binconfig-disabled as to how it
>> solves the problem.  A pointer/example would really be appreciated.
>
> meta-oe:
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> d7363984b83c938db6f0a16ca8732bed69ca8acb
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>
> oe-core:
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>
> It's really not so hard to search for "-config" in git log.
>

Not every change in these lists was relevant (in fact most
were not).  However, I did find an example which worked
for me.

Bottom line - change 'freetype-config XXX' to 'pkg-config freetype2 XXX'

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