[yocto] MULTILIB builds with Yocto: Status?

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Nick,

On Monday 25 November 2013 01:43:32 Nick D'Ademo wrote:
> Found the fix for these issues:
> 
> *The two offending Poky recipes are:*
> recipes-multimedia/x264
> recipes-multimedia/libav
> 
> *Files which need to be modified:*
> x264_git.bb -> Add --libdir=${libdir} to EXTRA_OECONF variable
> libav.inc -> Add --libdir=${libdir} AND --shlibdir=${libdir} to
> EXTRA_OECONF variable
> 
> As you can see from the above fixes, the issue was that the configure step
> was passing "usr/lib" instead of "usr/lib64" which ultimately caused the
> "installed but not shipped" errors.
> 
> Are these actually bugs which should be patched in the recipes?

These two recipes have their own custom (non-autotools) configure scripts and 
thus we compose our own configure command line to match; so yes we should fix 
these. Would you be able to send a patch on top of OE-Core to add the options 
to each recipe? There's a guide here if you need it:

http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre