[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/cpio: add host version

[Atharva Lele <itsatharva@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, July 14, 2019 6:08:59 PM IST Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Arnout, All,
> 
> On 2019-07-14 14:19 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> > On 14/07/2019 11:03, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > The latest cpio has a --reproducible option, which may come handy when
> > > we try to, well, be reproducible...
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
> > > Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> > > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
> > > Cc: Atharva Lele <itsatharva@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  package/cpio/cpio.mk | 3 +++
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/package/cpio/cpio.mk b/package/cpio/cpio.mk
> > > index 9a09279572..d2814b87a5 100644
> > > --- a/package/cpio/cpio.mk
> > > +++ b/package/cpio/cpio.mk
> > > @@ -16,4 +16,7 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ARGP_STANDALONE),y)
> > > 
> > >  CPIO_DEPENDENCIES += argp-standalone
> > >  endif
> > > 
> > > +HOST_CPIO_CONF_OPTS = --bindir=$(HOST_DIR)/bin
> >  
> >  Why is this needed? For target it is needed because --prefix is set to
> >  /usr so> 
> > it would end up in /usr/bin and we want it in /bin. But for hsot, --prefix
> > is $(HOST_DIR).
> 
> You know what? That is exactly what I think, too. ;-)
> 
> I just did a quick hack locally to test the build time of cpio, and did
> not try to think further, so I stupidly copied the target variant as-is
> without thinking too much.
> 
> Then I saw it worked, got the required timings from a batch of 5 runs,
> finished my reply to Atharva's fs/cpio patch, and decided to send this
> patch too, without realising that it needed a bit more love.
> 
> Atharva, when you respin your fs/cpio patch, can you grab this one in
> your tree and fix it as Arnout pointed out?

I will :)

> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
> 
> >  Regards,
> >  Arnout
> >  
> > > +
> > > 
> > >  $(eval $(autotools-package))
> > > 
> > > +$(eval $(host-autotools-package))

Regards,
Atharva Lele