Re: Native vs not

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 03/14/2011 10:40 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 10:26 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 03/11/2011 05:10 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>>> I think having some buildhost/native packages (based on distro/version) trusted and assume provided or even
>>> installed using the build host package management could be one approach
>>> in modern distros I think we could use lot of host packages as is. or
>>> may be trust all and keep a list of blacklisted packages for a given
>>> distro might be something useful
>>
>> I've been thinking about this a bit and at least at the high level there
>> is an argument for making it easy to opt out of a big class of host
>> tools, on a modern distro and trade reprodicibility / reliability for
>> faster initial build times.  And on the flip side, opt out of a bit more
>> of our host tool dependencies.
>
> This is what ASSUME_PROVIDED is there for :)

Well yes.  But it'd be nice if we had a few helpers so you could say:
ASSUME_PROVIDED += "${SCM_FETCH_TOOLS} ${DOCUMENTATION_GENERATION_TOOLS} 
..."
and so forth.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation