[poky] Is the grammar of .la files changed in new libtool 2.4?

[Khem Raj]

On (26/01/11 13:56), Lu, Lianhao wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> I'm wondering whether the grammar of the .la files generated by new libtool 2.4 is different from the old ones. Take the file libxcb-res.la generated by libxcb for example, it contains a line:
> 
> dependency_libs=' =/usr/lib/libxcb.la =/usr/lib/libXau.la'
> 
> While in the old libxcb.la file, this line appeared to be 
> 
> dependency_libs=' /usr/lib/libxcb.la /usr/lib/libxcb.la'
> 
> Is the "=" a new grammar for liblool 2.4? 

yes its new and it means that sysroot will be prepended to this when
resolving

Because in meta-toolchain, it needs to fix these .la files by replacing all the "/usr/lib" to "${SDKTARGETSYSROOT}/usr/lib", etc. This new "=" causes the original regular expression not work.
> 
> b.t.w. Do we still need the code in meta-toolchain to fix broken .la files? According to my understanding, the new sysroot support in libtool 2.4 should solve this problem, right? Thanks!
> 
> Best Regards,
> - Lianhao Lu
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