[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] Convert gettext to autotargets

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>]

Le 21/05/2012 10:08, Will Newton a ?crit :
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  >> This seems backwards. Wouldn't you want to keep the binaries if libintl
>>  >> is enabled?
>>
>>  Samuel> Actually, do we really need to remove these binaries?
>>  Samuel> On an arm build, these 3 binaries take less than 80KB.
>>
>> I don't feel strongly about it. The stuff needing gettext is typically
>> quite a lot bigger than 80KB, so perhaps simplifying stuff is indeed the
>> way to go.
> 
> I would suggest that if we used to remove it then we should keep
> removing it. Otherwise you end up in the situation where you update
> buildroot and your filesystem image gets ever so slightly bigger and
> won't fit in flash any more.

I think that it is something you should expect when upgrading buildroot.
I mean, you already have a lot of packages version bump that can lead to
the same filesystem size increase, with the result you described.

Maxime

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