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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-04-08 15:20, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2015-04-08 14:24, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> 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).
>>
>
> It turns out the problem is not in vlc but in the creation of libQtGui
> 'tmp/sysroots/nitrogen6x/usr/lib/libQtGui.la' contains these lines:
>
>    # Libraries that this one depends upon.
>    dependency_libs='   -lEGL -lGAL -DLINUX=1 -DEGL_API_FB=1  -lQtCore  -lpthread '
>
> You can't have preprocessor commands within the link/library section.  I removed
> them [manually] and was able to successfully build vlc.
>
> I looked at 'meta-fsl-arm/qt5-layer/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase_%.bbappend' but I
> could not see what to change to keep these flags out of the *.la files

Note: it actually might be in 'meta-fsl-arm/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free_%.bbappend'
since vlc is using qt4-x11-free, but I still am unsure what to change.

>
> Any help with that would be appreciated.
>

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