[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm]: Wayland/Weston issue with gpu-viv-bin-mx6q 3.5.7-1.0.0-alpha.2

[Erik Botö]

I have seen this with 3.5.7 as well, but 3.10 recipes from master-next
seem ok for me.

Cheers,
Erik Botö

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Andy Voltz <andy.voltz at timesys.com> wrote:
> I've been integrating the gpu-viv-bin-mx6q binaries from meta-fsl-arm into
> Timesys Factory, but I've encountered a linker issue which I think illustrates
> non-functional lib{EGL,GAL}-wl in the 3.5.7-1.0.0-alpha.2 version yocto
> provides.
>
> I'm not sure if this is an issue that needs to be fixed, given the impending
> jump to 3.10, but I figured I'd share it just in case.
>
> Before getting into further details, it's worth stating that the 3.10 stuff in
> master-next is fine (KUDOS!) This is just an issue with the master branch. In
> fact, replacing libEGL-wl.so and libGAL-wl.so with the binaries found in the
> 3.10 version in master-next fixes this issue.
>
> Now the details:
> With 3.5.7-1.0.0-alpha.2, linking weston throws several undefined symbol
> errors around these symbols:
>
> gcoOS_CapturePointer
> gcoOS_CopyPixmapBits
> gcoOS_CreateClientBuffer
> gcoOS_CreateContext
> gcoOS_CreateDrawable
> gcoOS_CreatePixmap
> gcoOS_CreateWindow
> gcoOS_DeinitLocalDisplayInfo
> ...(46 total, all named gcoOS_*)
>
> Using objdump to compare the symbols in 3.5.7 to those in 3.10 version, all
> of these symbols are defined in the 3.10 version of libGAL-wl.so. They are
> either *UND* or not found in the 3.5.7 versions of these binaries.
>
> I've run into this with Timesys tools -- my attempts to build weston in yocto
> meta-fsl-arm master have been all unsuccessful--clearly the fixups to weston
> in master-next are needed for a start.
>
> For Timesys, I think I'll just drop in the 3.10 gpu-viv binaries, and test
> using that. weston is working in our environment with this configuration, but
> I need to revisit X, DFB, and fb.
> --
> Andy Voltz
> Timesys Corporation
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