[yocto] sysroot and boost.m4 library search path problem

2012-02-08 Thread Joshua Immanuel
Hello all, While trying to build my user space application in yocto, the boost.m4 was looking packages in the host (i.e host contamination, thereby resulting in configure error). This appears to be a problem in boost.m4 which ignores the sysroot option while searching for libraries. In the

Re: [yocto] sysroot and boost.m4 library search path problem

2012-02-08 Thread Joshua Immanuel
Hello all, On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:19 +0530, Joshua Immanuel wrote: To address this problem, I've written a patch for boost.m4 specifically for yocto. I believe this will be helpful to others who are using boost libraries. I guess, I have to send a separate patch to boost.m4 maintainer using

Re: [yocto] sysroot and boost.m4 library search path problem

2012-02-08 Thread Joshua Immanuel
Hello McClintock, On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 15:44 +, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: Did you consider taking this patch and adding it to the proper recipe? The patch is basically for boost.m4. We have the boost package in 'meta' layer. But, boost.m4 is not a part of boost library, it is