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

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:39 +0800, Lu, Lianhao wrote:
> Garman, Scott A wrote on 2011-01-26:
> The code snippet I mentioned about fixing broken .la files is in
> function do_populate_sdk() in file
> meta/recipies-core/meta/meta-toolchina.bb, you might search for "# Fix
> or remove broken .la files" to locate the code.

We should just be able to drop that now.

> > Once I have the code sections to examine we should be able to iron
> > this out more clearly.
> > 
> 
> I have one more question about how to use the new libtool (sysroot
> enabled libroot 2.4) in meta-toolchain. Is there anything missing in
> the following sequence(takes mips as example)? Thank you!
> 
> $libtoolize --automake
> $aclocal -I <m4 dir containing m4 files from libtool 2.4> 
> $autoconf
> $autoheader
> $automake -a
> $./configure --host=mips-poky-linux --target=mips-poky-linux --with-libtool-sysroot=<mips sysroot dir>

This looks correct off the top of my head, the important bit is the
libtoolize call and the specification of the libtool sysroot to
configure. I'm assuming libtoolize is from libtool-nativesdk?

Cheers,

Richard