[Buildroot] [PATCH v7 4/4] xbmc: new package

[Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>]

Hi Martin, all
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Martin Bark <martin@barkynet.com> wrote:
> Maxime, Thomas,
>
>
> On 18/02/14 17:02, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
>>
>> Hi Thomas, all
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
>> <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Maxime Hadjinlian,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:37:13 +0100, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
>>>
>>>> diff --git a/package/xbmc/Config.in b/package/xbmc/Config.in
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 0000000..23650ed
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/package/xbmc/Config.in
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
>>>> +comment "xbmc requires an OpenGL-capable backend"
>>>> +     depends on !(BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_OPENGL_EGL &&
>>>> BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_OPENGL_ES)
>>>
>>>
>>> I would make the comment more specific:
>>>
>>> comment "xbmc requires an OpenGL ES and EGL backend"
>>>
>>>> +# External toolchain are required because of a missing bitdefs.h
>>>> +comment "xbmc needs an (e)glibc external toolchain w/ C++, wchar"
>>>> +     depends on !(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC && BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP &&
>>>> BR2_USE_WCHAR) || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT
>>>
>>>
>>> This dependency does not make much sense to me. Your comment mentions
>>> "external toolchain", but it is not reflected by the dependencies.
>>> Moreover, we now have glibc/eglibc support in the internal backend, so
>>> I don't really see how there could be a difference between internal and
>>> external here. Additionally, if the C library is glibc or eglibc, then
>>> you are guaranteed to have wchar support. So if what you need is
>>> eglibc/glibc, then please do:
>>>
>>> comment "xbmc needs an (e)glibc toolchain w/ C++"
>>>          depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
>>>
>> The problem I had with internal toolchain, {X}libc was that, the
>> bitdefs.h is missing, and XBMC needs it.
>> I'll look at it another time as maybe my tests were not thorough enough.
>>
>
> locally i tried this change and the following defconfig
>
> BR2_arm=y
> BR2_arm1176jzf_s=y
> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_GLIBC=y
> BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_CXX=y
> BR2_PACKAGE_XBMC=y
> BR2_PACKAGE_RPI_USERLAND=y
>
> and it all built ok.  I also tried with eglibc and it build ok too.
>
> Thanks
That's really nice to know. I'll do some tests on my own. But it would
mean I could lift the restriction on using external toolchain to only
using one with glibc/eglibc, when Gotham is ready we could lift this
restriction altogether !
Thanks a lot for testing this !