From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:47:56 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] avahi dependencies on host tools In-Reply-To: <5f2b60912160550x6d3ae47eu4f625f0259737e95@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091216102451.339e6ba9@surf> <5f2b60912160550x6d3ae47eu4f625f0259737e95@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20091216154756.7e5b3db2@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:50:26 +0100, Bj?rn Forsman a ?crit : > IMHO, I'd like for Buildroot to build the least amount of host tools > so that build times can be kept down. I often start from > scratch... :-) True, but on the other hand, the approach we've been following since Buildroot maintenance has been taken over by Peter is that we should only rely on "basic" tools on the host. That's the reason why we build autoconf, automake, glib, pkg-config and other stuff for the host as needed. It makes the compilation process a little longer, but on the other hand, it makes the build process a *lot* more predictable. In the past, we had tons of reports of build failures that were caused by issues in varying versions of the host tools. And these problems are particularly annoying since the Buildroot developers often can't reproduce them. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com