Bug 340535 – gst-plugins-base.eclass reworked to remove libarchive dependancies

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300256
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ahmed Ammar (RETIRED) 2010-10-11 14:24:30 UTC]

Attached is a new eclass, tested on arm, which removes the need for libarchives in Makefile dependency lists, instead use the linker to find the needed libraries.

This is needed in cross-compiling environments and situations where INSTALL_MASK contains "*.la"

[Comment 1 Ahmed Ammar (RETIRED) 2010-10-11 14:25:04 UTC]

Created attachment 250229 [details]
gst-plugins-base.eclass

[Comment 2 Ahmed Ammar (RETIRED) 2010-10-11 22:42:47 UTC]

Created attachment 250285 [details, diff]
gst-plugins-base.eclass.patch

[Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp 2010-10-12 12:28:16 UTC]

Feel free to explain your use case on the duplicate bug.
And you mean libtool archives, as "libarchives" is confusing in existence of a libarchive project that abstract file (un)compressors.
Also be very careful with INSTALL_MASK="*.la", some projects actually require them and will break oddly if not found (those that use libltdl and have a libtool RDEPEND, as opposed to just DEPEND).
The typical embedded use case that I imagine is to build binary packages without such an INSTALL_MASK and then install from those binary packages with an appropriate INSTALL_MASK of *.h, *.a and careful *.la and so on, thus not hitting such a problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 300256 ***