From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Neumann Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:08:53 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] util-linux builds and installs lots of unwanted binaries In-Reply-To: References: <1334589472.13607.15.camel@sven> <51a409d383cc64319b438fc9b37c8807@zacarias.com.ar> <1334651710.2527.5.camel@sven> Message-ID: <1334682533.8917.2.camel@bender> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 08:08 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote: > Yes, i should make the other options depend on UTIL_LINUX_BASIC. > However there's a choice in front regarding UTIL_LINUX_BASIC - with all > the util-linux options disabled and this one enabled you still get > binary stuff installed because they're, well, basic utilities always > built by util-linux. > So the option would be to keep the basic option as is or add more > granular options for all those other tiny utilities described in the > help and remove/keep them in a post hook. > I'd rather go for the second option since not many people will want > mkfs.bfs, mkfs.minix and those utilities most of the time, even when > installing others. Adding an option for each and every utility would probably be too much. But we could introduce options for each of the sub-directories in util-linux (disk-utils, misc-utils, etc). Then one could use 'make -D (subdir) install' to install all the utilities from a sub-directory. Regards, Sven