[Buildroot] [PATCH] dependencies: Add host prerequisite for elf2flt

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:34:34 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> On 09/04/2013 05:51 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > I don't think host-elf2flt should be added at this level of dependency.
> > If I understand correctly elf2flt, it interfaces with the linker, so I
> > believe making elf2flt a dependency of binutils would probably make a
> > bit more sense.
> 
> It's already done correctly in the dependency deparment...
> 
> HOST_ELF2FLT_DEPENDENCIES = host-binutils host-zlib

What I was suggesting is that host-elf2flt should have been a
dependency of host-binutils. But that's obviously wrong, since elf2flt
requires the libbfd library I suspect.

> The problem is it's never pulled in when it's necessary - before the
> real packages start building, so adding it up as a gcc dep when
> BR2_BINFMT_FLAT=y would be appropiate.

Indeed. If it's not needed during the gcc build, one solution is to add
its as a dependency in host-gcc-final.

Thomas
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