[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] flex: not to build shared libraries

[Burton, Ross]

On 5 March 2014 09:58, Lu Chong <Chong.Lu at windriver.com> wrote:
> In Mageia distribution, revert building libraries with libtool.
> http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mageia/cauldron/x86_64/media/core/release/flex-2.5.38-1.mga5.x86_64.html
> And in flex 2.5.37 version, it will only generate static libraries.
> So in order to ignore blocking some packages(likes ipsec-tools), I have two
> ways to fix this issue.
> 1. revert building libraries with libtool.
> 2. modify libtool to make it only build static libraries.
> I choose the second way. The same result to first.

Same result apart from that there is no longer a shared libfl.so
anymore, so it's not the same.

Mageia's solution is cleaner as it only impacts ipsec-tools, but I'd
have thought it could be solved without having to revert using libtool
(as the error suggests its an as-needed ordering problem).

Ross