[oe] [PATCH 0/6] libtool 2.4 upgrade

[Tom Rini]

Koen Kooi wrote:
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> On 05-10-10 09:43, Khem Raj wrote:
>> Hi
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>> Following set of patches is intial support for getting libtool 2.4 into
>> openemebedded. I have so far built minimal-image for two machines successfully
>>
>> The big change that libtool 2.4 brings is sysroot support and I have added
>> support to use this feature. It should make our life easier.
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> I'm a bit concerned about the way this is implemented, it seems to for
> libtool 2.4 onto everyone since it changes e.g. autotools.bbclass. Is
> that intended? If so we need signoffs from each and every distro
> maintainer *and* from the maemo-compat folks as well.
> Unless there is a way to make the new features conditional on the
> libtool version.

It shouldn't be too bad, implementation wise, to set LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT 
or similar and test for that.  But can we also set a phase out date for 
older libtool, even if maemo-compat isn't possible (given chinhook pins 
to 1.5, I bet it's not) ?

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation