[yocto] sysroot and boost.m4 library search path problem

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Joshua Immanuel <josh at hipro.co.in> wrote:
> Hello McClintock,
>
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 15:44 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
>> Did you consider taking this patch and adding it to the proper recipe?
>
> The patch is basically for boost.m4. We have the boost package in 'meta'
> layer. But, boost.m4 is not a part of boost library, it is maintained
> separately. As the boost doesn't support pkgconfig, boost.m4 comes to
> the rescue for finding installed boost libraries.
>
> So, this doesn't fit into any existing recipe. Whichever (autotools
> build system based) application uses boost library will obviously use
> boost.m4 and this patch is for them.

Do we need to add a recipe for boost.m4 and then apply your patch on top?

-M