Re: Crosscompiling fails since Gstreamer moved to new libtool version

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:16 +0100, Andreas Frisch wrote:
> the guys from gstreamer went through and moved to a newer libtool
> version in their plugin packages. since then i can't crosscompile
> anymore them with openembedded like with the previous releases. i
> described the problem here:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572532
> unfortunately, none of the gstreamer guys as able to help me with this
> libtool-specific issue. i found out that the main libtool code moved
> out of aclocal.m4 into a new file libtool.m4 in the m4 subdir of the
> source directory. i couldn't get configure to create the
> mipsel-linux-libtool instead of regular "libtool" though, not even by
> changing the line default_ofile=${host_alias}-libtool.
> maybe any of you can give me hint how i could solve my issue - thanks
> in advance!

As a warning the creation of "mipsel-linux-libtool" is an OpenEmbedded
specific patch and I'd suspect is not supported by libtool upstream.
Which version of libtool are you using in OpenEmbedded?

For reference in Poky, the gstreamer recipes have:

"""
do_configure_prepend() {
        # This m4 file contains nastiness which conflicts with libtool 2.2.2
        rm ${S}/m4/lib-link.m4 || true
}
"""

suggesting there was something in that m4 file that caused problems.

Richard