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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/12] pkg-infra: ensure gettext gets built before all other packages
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 11:09:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120903110952.6998fa01@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5043C1F8.6020801@mind.be>

Le Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:30:48 +0200,
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> a ?crit :

>   I don't like this.  I don't like the idea of having redundant
> dependencies, I don't like to have a single thing that everything
> depends on, I don't like the $(filter-out ...) construct.
> 
>   I also don't like that it breaks the build when the toolchain
> depends on some package (sstrip, ccache, ...).
> 
>   Possible alternatives:
> 
>   * Use a construct similar to patch 11/12: $(gettext-dependency)
> which is nothing unless gettext is enabled.
> 
>   * Move this dependency into the toolchain logic - which means
> duplicating it three times so maybe not such a good idea...

I don't like it either, and I don't think I like those alternatives
either.

I prefer keeping the explicit dependency in the packages, because I
don't like things that are too magic.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-03  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-02 15:43 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/12] Rework the gettext handling Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/12] gettext: remove option to build statically Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-03  9:01   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-09-03  9:21     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-03 18:02     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/12] gettext: remove the gettext-target make target, unused Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/12] gettext: remove libintl handling Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/12] Remove all references to libintl Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/12] gettext: convert to autotools-package Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/12] doc: update after gettext changes Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/12] package/lshw: add missing dependency on gettext Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/12] package/pulseaudio: fix build-dependency " Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/12] toolchain/common: rename BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/12] pkg-infra: ensure gettext gets built before all other packages Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 20:30   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-09-02 21:05     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-03  7:48       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-09-03  9:09     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-09-03  9:38       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/12] toolchain/common: introduce blind options BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT{, _IF_LOCALE} Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-02 15:43 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 12/12] packages: use the new gettext mechanism Yann E. MORIN

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