[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] giflib: don't link against libx11, don't depend on libsm

[Koen Kooi]

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Op 09-02-12 13:41, Andreas Oberritter schreef:
> On 09.02.2012 01:54, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>> On 08.02.2012 20:48, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 17:35, Andreas Oberritter
>>> <obi at opendreambox.org>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I already explained in the commit message, why a PR bump is not
>>>> needed. Can you please explain which other possible failures you're
>>>> expecting, so I can learn why my reasoning may be wrong?
>>>> 
>>>> This patch only fixes an unavailable build dependency at bitbake
>>>> level, nothing more.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Can the user call:
>>> 
>>> bitbake libsm
>>> 
>>> and then build giflib? in case of positive, we need to enforce have
>>> or not it linked.
>> 
>> At the time I created the patch, the user couldn't run bitbake libsm 
>> (for the same reason that it wouldn't be built automatically through 
>> giflib's DEPENDS).
>> 
>> That said, I updated the repos after your mail and ran bitbake libsm
>> in order to get the error message again, but the error vanished. 
>> Apparently, an indirect dependency on libx11 was dropped during the
>> last few weeks. I searched the logs, but didn't find the change.
>> Strange. Now, many x11 packages got built even though x11 still wasn't
>> listed in my DISTRO_FEATURES.
>> 
>> Anyway, please consider this patch obsolete. I'll probably resend an 
>> updated version together with other patches to disable some more x11 
>> libraries on demand.
> 
> I did some further research regarding giflib:
> 
> - giflib doesn't depend on libSM alone, but optionally depends on libX11.
> When linked against libX11, it also links agains libSM and libICE, under
> certain conditions. Since libSM does not depend on libX11, the current
> giflib build is non-deterministic.
> 
> - Debian's/Ubuntu's giflib gets configured with --disable-x11 
> unconditionally.
> 
> So we have two options:
> 
> 1.) Pass --disable-x11 unconditionally like Debian/Ubuntu 2.) Add
> virtual/libx11 to DEPENDS, if x11 is defined in DISTRO_FEATURES, and add
> --enable/diable-x11 to EXTRA_OECONF

I'd go for 1)
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