[Buildroot] [PATCH] Added menu entry to build squashfs host tools separately

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 03/02/14 08:10, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,
> 
> On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:53:28 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
>>> In the other filesystems, we do not necessarily select
>>> BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_<utilities to build the filesystem>, and therefore we
>>> keep the <pkg>_DEPENDENCIES that contains host-<utilities to build the
>>> filesystem>.
>>
>>   I would actually prefer to have both the select and the dependencies, 
>> since that's what we do for target packages.
> 
> But then we should be consistent and do this all over the place: as
> soon as a host package has a Config.in symbol, then it should be
> selected by its reverse dependencies.

 Indeed.


>>   In addition (but that's just a small consideration), if at some point 
>> we make TARGETS contain only the target targets (heh), then the 
>> dependency chain for filesystems is still correct.
> 
> Hum, there are some host packages that we want to build and that are
> not dependencies of target packages. That's the very reason why we have
> the "Host utilities" menu.
> 
> That being said, it would certainly be good to have two make variables:
> 
>  * TARGET_PACKAGES
>  * HOST_PACKAGES
> 
> that are respectively used to contain the list of targets for
> enabled target packages, and the list of targets for enabled host
> packages.

 That's exactly what I mean.

 Regards,
 Arnout



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