On Thursday 03 February 2011 16:52:20 sven.bieb...@be.thalesgroup.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Having decided to use 2.6 on my embedded target, I am running into a few
> problems that require code/script changes. Hence my post in this channel
> and not the general support.
>
> I am more than willing to provide the changes should they appeal ...
The build system is messy. If you have anything useful I'm sure the list would
like to see it.
> The following issues arose:
> * building libsalsa requires libtool to support --tag, older libtool
> versions do not support it yet.
I wonder if libtool is really necessary for it to build. No matter...
> The existence of libtool and/or its support for the parameter could be
> checked by the configure script, which could then bail and suggest the user
> to use --enable-libsalsa=NO.
> * the ogg vorbis support is checked in two directories, however, the
> #include statement is formed so it only fits one of both, causing a compile
> error when in the other case.
The include statement is <vorbis/vorbisfile.h>. Perhaps utils/ossmkdep.h should
just add the /usr/local/include directory?
> * the graphical tools require gtk support, however the configure does not
> check for its presence, nor can they be disabled by the configure.
They are tested later (setup/setupdir.sh, setup/srcconf.c). Yea, adding a
disable switch would be useful. I can send a diff if anyone is interested.
>
> More issues come from the actual installation on my linker-less target... .
> The modules cannot be installed on target via tarball/soundon but they
> cannot be created on the host via "make install" without affecting my host
> setup.
>
> Can you provide me with pointers how to add support for specifying an
> install root, so OSS can be deployed in a temporary location ? This allows
> making a root file system that be dumped on my target and does not need
> manual adaptations afterwards.
You can edit setup/Linux/make.local to add a target.
Yours,
Yair K.
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