From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 23:03:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3 v3] linux: kconfig needs host-{flex, bison} to build the configurators In-Reply-To: <20180814215344.20784816@windsurf> References: <20180814162130.00f55418@windsurf> <20180814152743.GJ7915@scaer> <20180814215344.20784816@windsurf> Message-ID: <20180814210349.GN7915@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2018-08-14 21:53 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:27:43 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > > Also, if we > > > make bison/flex hard requirements of Buildroot, I'd like to have a > > > clear rule on whether we keep or not our host-bison/host-flex packages, > > > and if we keep them, when they should be used vs. when the system > > > bison/flex should be used. > > > > My position is that we will always want to have our host flex and bison > > to build packages that install things in host/, in staging/ or in > > target/. > > > > For the linux kernel and other kconfig-based packages, we don't care > > which flex/bison are used, because the resulting binaries are not > > installed, unless those packages also generate code eventually installed > > in host/, staging/ or target/ > > So the system-wide bison/flex would only be used for the kconfig > programs built by Buildroot itself (if we move to a newer kconfig > version that doesn't have the pre-generated files) or by > Linux/U-Boot/Busybox/Barebox. Any other use of flex/bison would use > host-flex and host-bison. That's your proposal ? Yes, that is my proposal. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'