[oe] RFC: add osso version of libtool and libatk

[Robert Schuster]

Hi,
with Holger's help I pulled out an old version of libtool 1.5.6. I added
it to the tree again with DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" and a note for why
it exists ...

I'll have a look at unifying the libtool recipes later. They all look
very similar indeed ...

Regards
Robert

Richard Purdie schrieb:
> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 13:29 +0100, Robert Schuster wrote:
>> on IRC it was suggested to put this on the mailing list.
>>
>> I want some osso versions (Maemo-specific) of some software packages in
>> OE to be able to build compatible packages:
>>
>> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3384
>>
>> If no one objects I would like to apply the patches there.
> 
> I have two concerns:
> 
> a) libtool at least duplicates a lot of recipe, we should be encouraging
> more .inc usage.
> b) packages is becoming large and unwieldy
> 
> There could be a case for splitting packages into say:
> 
> packages/ 
> packages-gpe/
> packages-maemo/
> packages-openmoko/
> packages-opie/
> 
> Sadly these two points don't work well together since .inc/patch sharing
> with collections enabled doesn't work. This is something I think we need
> to fix as a priority.
> 
> The advantage to b) is I can then remove groups of files from the
> equation easily and speed up parsing and reduce the chances of bad
> things like  maemo packages breaking my normal ones...
> 
> This disadvantage is that you end up with libtool in two places and if
> one is updated, the other could be missed.
> 
> Reluctantly I'd therefore say it could be committed now if an .inc file
> is created for libtool and maybe improved for atk but we should consider
> the wider issue.
> 
> I'd also make a case for given vendor 'hacked' versions a
> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" so you have to explicitly select them.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
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