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

[Koen Kooi]

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On 05-10-10 17:15, Tom Rini wrote:
> Koen Kooi wrote:
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>> On 05-10-10 09:43, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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. 

That was I was thinking, make it opt in for now and have the
trailblazers (angstrom, shr) find & fix issues before RFC it to make it
the default.

> 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) ?

A phase-out would be good, I'm not sure how many people are going to use
maemo-compat (and friends) from .dev in a few months from now.

Doing something like this is a lot bigger than a toolchain change, so I
don't think 2 signoffs is enough.

My proposal:

1) add libtool recipes to .dev
2) create branch for sysroot changes (with or without LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT)
3) gather test reports for said branch
4) fix issues
5) create branch with LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT and propose for merging.

Does that sounds like a decent plan to go forward?

regards,

Koen
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