[Buildroot] avahi dependencies on host tools

[Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 15:47 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Le Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:50:26 +0100,
> Bj?rn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com> a ?crit :
> 
> > IMHO, I'd like for Buildroot to build the least amount of host tools
> > so that build times can be kept down. I often start from
> > scratch... :-)
> 
> True, but on the other hand, the approach we've been following since
> Buildroot maintenance has been taken over by Peter is that we should
> only rely on "basic" tools on the host. That's the reason why we build
> autoconf, automake, glib, pkg-config and other stuff for the host as
> needed. It makes the compilation process a little longer, but on the
> other hand, it makes the build process a *lot* more predictable.

I understand this. But building perl just to get intltool into a clean
state seems a little bit overshot to me and I am worrying about the
increased build time this would cause.


Sven