[meta-freescale] qt5 toolchain

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
<mail at webthatworks.it> wrote:
> On 13/10/2015 15:11, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>
>>> I can't bitbake
>>> - meta-toolchain-qte (depends on x11)
>>> - meta-toolchain-qt5 (some packages depends on opengl eg. qt3d)
>
>
>>> What is the best way to go further?
>
>
>>> BTW is this the right place to ask this kind of questions? It seems more
>>> a
>>> mailing list for the fsl developers rather than fsl users.
>>> If it is not where should I post this kind of questions and more general
>>> question on yocto?
>
>
>> It is indeed a generic question, anyway you will need to make some
>> bbappend files to remove the opengl related packages from the distro
>> and toolchain.
>
>
> I came across this thread:
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2015-March/013126.html
>
> so it seems it is a recurring topic even here.
> mx28 doesn't seems too much loved for the reasons you explained in a
> previous email.
> From a user point of view the lack of a bit more support in different places
> to CPU that don't have opengl is increasing friction for newcomers quite a
> bit.
>
> I'll subscribe to openembedded ML and move the topic there to see what would
> be the quality level required for a patch to
> packagegroup-qt5-toolchain-target.bb
> or if I should just write my own layer to _remove stuff from there.
>
> From my point of view disabling opengl (and other things strictly HW
> related) should be something set in the lowest layer and be passed on to
> higher software layer so to make it clearer to higher layers that they
> should take it into account ASAP and not as a "retro-fit".
>
> qtlocation doesn't seem to depend on qt3d anymore, but it still depends on
> qtquickcontrols that up to my memory depends on opengl.

All your feedback is valuable and I agree with it. We welcome patches
to improve the support for opengl-less CPUs or you can hire someone
(us - O.S. Systems, or other software vendor) to do the work.
Personally I do my best to address as many things as my free time can
fit so I apologize for your turn-key experience not being as good as
you wished but you can help to improve it (in one way or another).

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