[oe] package VDR for OE

[Henning Heinold]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:48:40PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear OE hackers,
> 
> 
> I am trying to write a recipe for The Video Disc Recorder (VDR) [1] and
> get it into OE.
> 
> Unfortunately I have never done this and I also do not know much about
> things related to compiling.
> 
> I tried to follow [2] and [3] and came up with the following which is
> not much as you can see and in addition does not work yet.
> 
> The problem I am facing is, that in the Makefile of VDR [4] there is
> 
>         […]
>         LIBS     = -ljpeg -lpthread -ldl -lcap -lrt -lfreetype
>         -lfontconfig
>         INCLUDES = -I/usr/include/freetype
>         […]
> 
> so that the path `/usr/include/freetype/` is passed to the make command
> which of course fails trying to cross compile the program.
> 
>         CROSS COMPILE Badness: /usr/include in INCLUDEPATH: /usr/include/freetype2
>         cc1plus: internal compiler error: in add_path, at c-incpath.c:425
> 
> Now, if I understand it correctly by looking at other recipes there is
> EXTRA_OEMAKE = "" where I should be able to set the INCLUDEPATH to the
> OE build environment. Is that correct.
> 
> Could you please also tell me what the recipe variable name is for libs?
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Paul

What buildsystem is vdr using autotools or handmade Makefiles?

for autotools just do
inherit autotools

for handmade Makefiles

make a Patch which patches the Makefile and sets the include path to our staginginclude-Path

Bye Henning