[Buildroot] [buildroot] libevas build failure analysis

[Lionel Orry]

Can you send an email on e-devel maiiling list? They are about to put
EFL 1.7 in maintenance as soon as 1.8 is released, so I guess it's
time to tell them, I'm sure they will correct it quickly


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:04 PM, arnaud aujon <arnaud.aujon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> A quick analysis of libevas build failure
> (http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/15c/15cfb974e428b20ba230321cd8b59a82308785af/)
>
> The build fails because the member 'delete_me' of the Image_Entry_Flags
> structure is undefined. This is because there is a ifdef BUILD_ASYNC_PRELOAD
> surrounding this member which is not defined during the build because the
> toolchain doesn't have thread support.
>
> From libevas.mk :
> # async image preload support needs threads support in toolchain
> ifneq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS),y)
> LIBEVAS_CONF_OPT += --disable-async-preload
> endif
>
> But it seems like the file evas_cache2.c is using 'delete_me' regardless of
> the 'async image preload support'
>
> I don't have the time to investigate more, but it looks like without threads
> we should use 'lib/cache' and not 'lib/cache2'  which are defining the same
> symboles but 'cache2' absolutely need threads support, 'cache' doesn't .
> So I guess we have to fix the makefile to use this the 'cache'
> implementation.
>
> Does someone  know what we should do here ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Arnaud
>
>
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