Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v6 1/2] package/pkg-meson: h files only into sysroot

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello,

On Thu,  2 Jan 2025 17:46:29 +0100
Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr> wrote:

> Many packages built with Buildroot and meson currently install header
> files into both:
>   - the target’s /usr/include, and
>   - the sysroot’s /usr/include.
> 
> When FOO_MESON_INSTALL_TAGS = YES, ensure that header files are
> installed exclusively in the staging (sysroot) target during the
> build process.
> 
> The default is FOO_MESON_INSTALL_TAGS ?= NO in order to avoid
> changing to this new behaviour for the time being.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
> Suggested-by: Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>
> Suggested-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@gmail.com>

Thanks Vincent for the patch.

I am not sure we want this behavior, as it would only be applicable to
meson packages. For all other packages, we install pretty much
everything to target, and then wipe-out what's needed in
target-finalize. So I'm not sure what is the benefit of diverging from
this common behavior just for meson packages.

This is not a strong feeling, but as other build systems don't have
this concept of installing only the runtime, I'm not sure it makes a
lot of sense to use that just for meson-based packages.

Thomas
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