[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm] Can't build vlc

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Gary,

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> This seems to be a BSP issue as I can build vlc for any non-i.MX
> target.
>
> When I try to build vlc using this setup:
> Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION        = "1.27.0"
> BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-14.04"
> TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE           = "nitrogen6x"
> DISTRO            = "poky"
> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.8+snapshot-20150408"
> TUNE_FEATURES     = "arm armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard cortexa9"
> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
> meta              = "master:9e4adec98db325112ca7a8b9dd95722d4d0ab642"
> meta-fsl-arm      = "master:bfe01a0ebde407086f4a7710ea165c6beff310d7"
> meta-fsl-arm-extra = "master:49843fbd4cdfcdd37ad191dbf4bdc63e06cf1e0e"
> meta-oe
> meta-gnome
> meta-multimedia   = "master:df6c7b1279790d27ebfd58fbdfbac89bde5782ec"
> meta-yocto
> meta-yocto-bsp    = "master:9e4adec98db325112ca7a8b9dd95722d4d0ab642"
>
> conf/bblayers.conf:
> BBLAYERS ?= " \
>   /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta \
>   /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-fsl-arm \
>   /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-fsl-arm-extra \
>   /local/meta-openembedded.github/meta-oe \
>   /local/meta-openembedded.github/meta-gnome \
>   /local/meta-openembedded.github/meta-multimedia \
>   /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-yocto \
>   /local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-yocto-bsp \
>   "
>
> conf/local.conf  (just the parts I added):
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_jpeg = "libjpeg-turbo"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_jpeg-native = "libjpeg-turbo-native"
> LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST ?= "commercial_gst-fluendo-mp3 \
>                             commercial_gst-openmax \
>                             commercial_gst-plugins-ugly \
>                             commercial_gst-ffmpeg \
>                             commercial_gstreamer1.0-libav \
>                             commercial_lame \
>                             commercial_libav \
>                             commercial_libpostproc \
>                             commercial_mplayer2 \
>                             commercial_x264 \
>                             commercial_libmad \
>                             commercial_libomxil \
>                             commercial_mpeg2dec \
>                             commercial_qmmp"
> MACHINE = "nitrogen6x"
> ACCEPT_FSL_EULA = "1"
>
> I get this error:
> | arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-libtool:   error: cannot find the library '' or
> unhandled argument '-DLINUX=1'
> | make[6]: *** [libqt4_plugin.la] Error 1
> | make[6]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/im6_2015-04-08/tmp/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/vlc/2.1.4-r0/build/modules/gui/qt4'
> ...
> ERROR: Task 6
> (/local/meta-openembedded.github/meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/vlc/vlc_2.1.4.bb,
> do_compile) failed with exit code '1'
>
> Full compile log is at http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/vlc-log.do_compile2
>
> Curious thing is I can build vlc for any other target I've tried,
> just not for the i.MX6.  For example, just change to "ls1021atwr"
> and it will work.
>
> What's so special (broken) about i.MX6?

GPU support. Check other bbappend files about how to enable support
for it (qtbase might be  a good base).

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