[meta-intel] [PATCH 0/2] upgrade libva & libva-intel-driver

[Kamble, Nitin A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: meta-intel-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-intel-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Tom Zanussi
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:53 AM
> To: Palcu, Laurentiu
> Cc: meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-intel] [PATCH 0/2] upgrade libva & libva-intel-driver
> 
> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 14:57 +0200, Laurentiu Palcu wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 03:11:19PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > >
> > > OK, freedesktop.org is back, but now get this in do_rootfs, for
> > > crownbay:
> > >
> > >
> > > | Computing transaction...error: Can't install
> > > | va-intel-1.0-r1 at core2: no
> > > package provides libva-egl
> > > |
> > > | Saving cache...
> > > |
> > > | ERROR: Function failed: do_rootfs
> > > (see
> > > /usr/local/dev/yocto/nitin-test/build/tmp/work/crownbay-poky-linux/c
> > > ore-image-sato/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.3779 for further
> > > information)
> > > ERROR: Task 7
> > > (/usr/local/dev/yocto/nitin-test/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-
> sato.bb, do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'
> > >
> > > poky/master is at:
> > >
> > > commit 6663b79452bcdd95fc69e1ec853baae6c5297ab2
> > > Author: Andreas Oberritter <obi at opendreambox.org>
> > > Date:   Tue Mar 5 18:56:40 2013 +0100
> > >
> > >     libpcap: fix description variable
> > >
> > > in local.conf:
> > >
> > > MACHINE ??= "crownbay"
> > > LICENSE_FLAGS_WHITELIST = "license_emgd-driver-bin_1.16
> commercial"
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > Hmmm, it seems that libva-egl package is not built because, in the new
> > version, the check for egl availability is done using pkg-config. And
> > the emgd-driver-bin does not provide an egl.pc file...
> >
> > There are 4 solutions to this:
> >  * make libva use the old method of detecting egl, so it builds
> > libva-egl anyway;
> >  * override pkg-config by providing EGL_CFLAGS and EGL_LIBS separately
> to configure.
> >    I tested it and it worked fine adding the following snippet to libva recipe:
> >
> > do_configure_prepend () {
> > 	export EGL_CFLAGS="-I${STAGING_INCDIR}"
> > 	export EGL_LIBS="-L${STAGING_LIBDIR} -lEGL"
> > }
> >
> >  * we talk with the egmd maintainers to include *.pc file in the
> > package;
> >  * we create the *.pc files ourselves;
> >
> > What do you guys think?
> >
> 
> I'll leave it up to Nitin since he's the one who's been working with emgd lately
> and requested this upgrade, but it seems to me it would be good to do
> something we could 'upstream' to the emgd team, so how about the last
> option (create the *.pc files ourselves) and send the results to the emgd
> maintainers and see if they'd be interested?
> 
> Tom
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Laurentiu

Laurentiu,
  You can provide a patch, and I will review it.

Thanks,
Nitin