newt: enable python support

Compile newt with python support. There may be packages that need newt's
python extension.

Add python to DEPENDS. And add patch fix_python_fpic.patch to compile
python .so module with flag -fPIC.

(From OE-Core rev: aa591ecb1aac1c0308c05dbac81bc056869a2c3e)

Signed-off-by: Kang Kai <kai.kang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/newt/files/fix_python_fpic.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/newt/files/fix_python_fpic.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3ef94e0c56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/newt/files/fix_python_fpic.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Fix relocations warning when compile python module
+
+After enable python support in newt, bitbake complains warning:
+
+WARNING: QA Issue: ELF binary '/mnt/sda10/poky-all-platform/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/libnewt/0.52.14-r2/packages-split/libnewt-python/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_snackmodule.so' has relocations in .text
+
+Add flag -fPIC to compile _snackmodule.so to fix the warning.
+
+Signed-off-by: Kang Kai <kai.kang@windriver.com>
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+---
+--- newt-0.52.14/Makefile.in    2012-12-04 17:27:27.578915801 +0800
++++ newt-0.52.14/Makefile.in.new        2012-12-04 17:28:43.274918472 +0800
+@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
+                        PIFLAGS=`$$ver-config --includes`; \
+                        PLDFLAGS=`$$ver-config --ldflags`; \
+                        PLFLAGS=`$$ver-config --libs`; \
+-               $(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $$PIFLAGS $$PCFLAGS -c -o $$ver/snackmodule.o snackmodule.c ;\
++               $(CC) $(SHCFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $$PIFLAGS $$PCFLAGS -c -o $$ver/snackmodule.o snackmodule.c ;\
+                $(CC) --shared $$PLDFLAGS $$PLFLAGS $(LDFLAGS) -o $$ver/_snackmodule.so $$ver/snackmodule.o -L.  -lnewt $(LIBS);\
+        done || :
+        touch $@