Since a while, the semantic of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB has been changed
from "prefer static libraries when possible" to "use only static
libraries". The former semantic didn't make much sense, since the user
had absolutely no control/idea of which package would use static
libraries, and which packages would not. Therefore, for quite some
time, we have been starting to enforce that BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB
should really build everything with static libraries.
As a consequence, this patch renames BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to
BR2_STATIC_LIBS, and adjust the Config.in option accordingly.
This also helps preparing the addition of other options to select
shared, shared+static or just static.
Note that we have verified that this commit can be reproduced by
simply doing a global rename of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to
BR2_STATIC_LIBS plus adding BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to Config.in.legacy.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Even when doing static builds, a shared library is built. This causes a
build failure under some circumstances, for instance when building for
MIPS + uClibc + static.
After asking upstream if it would be possible to add a configure option
to not build the shared library, the answer was that doing a static
build is not a good idea. Here is a small snippet of the conversation:
"Note that fully static builds are problematic. elfutils uses dlopen to
open the EBL backends (the CPU-specific support snippets), so even if
you link statically, the final binaries are still considerably dynamic."
Related:
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2014-November/004223.html
Fixes:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/691/6913f5af6519463fbed39ef37b6a40ecf6a67b54/
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The elfutils package provides a more recent version of the libelf, so
let's use it. It will allow to remove the libelf package and to avoid
conflicts with two packages providing the same library.
[Peter: adjust toolchain options comment to match]
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
[Thomas:
- remove empty newline at the end of Config.in
- use lowercase for the package name in the comment header
- reword the comment explaining why autoreconf is needed
- add optional dependency on libftdi, which avrdude can use
- remove avrdude.conf.bak file from /etc]
Signed-off-by: Wojciech M. Zabolotny <wzab01@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
