[OpenWrt-Devel] Recent libtool to libltdl subdir name change

Daniel Dickinson openwrt at daniel.thecshore.com
Sat Jan 9 15:20:09 EST 2016


A fix might be to have scan.mk emit a new field Source-Package for 
.packageinfo from PKG_NAME and have metadata.pm use that source name 
instead of the subdir name.

Regards,

Daniel

On 09/01/16 03:16 PM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is a problem with the recent package rename from libtool to
> libltdl - it break a lot of packages in the packages feeds (or at least
> causes a great number of warnings; haven't tried ignoring the warning yet).
>
> The issue occurs because metadata.pm assumes that the subdirectory name
> is the same as the source package name (PKG_NAME), however with the
> libltdl commit that is not true of package libtool
>
> (PKG_NAME=libtool but subdir name is libltdl).
>
> It is not safe in OpenWrt to have PKG_NAME != subdir name.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
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