[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 5/5] xf86-video-imxfb-vivanter: Use 'autotools-brokensep' as out of tree build is not supported

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Daiane.Angolini at freescale.com
<Daiane.Angolini at freescale.com> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Otavio Salvador
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>> Subject: [meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm][PATCH 5/5] xf86-video-imxfb-
>> vivanter: Use 'autotools-brokensep' as out of tree build is not supported
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>> The out of tree build is not currently supported so disabale it for now.
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> s/disabale/disable
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> Would you mind to elaborate the commit log?

Fixed locally:

    xf86-video-imxfb-vivanter: Use 'autotools-brokensep' as out of
tree build is not supported

    The out of tree build is not currently supported so disable it for
    now; this change is need to allow autotools to default to out of tree
    builds in future.

    Change-Id: I89103b39bba524403be5bb1916ea5d99bb1662b4
    Reported-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>


> What do you mean by "out of tree build"?

That is, generated files such as object files and executables are
created in a tree outside the project source code. This approach can
be useful when building multiple versions of a project with different
options.

This is well supported for CMake based projects and some Autotools
ones too. But sometimes developers get it wrong as this is not
commonly used by users.

> And, when is it supposed to have a fix to replace this workaround?

When FSL fixes the build system in the driver. We can later work in a
patch for it but now I want to 'workaround' it so autotools class can
default to out of tree builds.

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