[Buildroot] [PATCH v8 01/11] host-qemu: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:15:49 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>   This looks very much like a $(host-autotools-package).  Even if the
> configure is not a proper autoconf script and barfs on all the unknown
> options that buildroot adds, you can still override the
> CONFIGURE_CMDS. But I expect that just setting HOST_QEMU_CONF_OPT
> will be enough.

Still, the package doesn't use the autotools, so we shouldn't use the
autotools-package infrastructure for it. While it may work at current
time t, it may easily break at time t+1 if we make changes to the
autotools-package infrastructure that are relevant for autotools
packages, but that break the subtle assumptions that non-autotools
packages are making in their use of the autotools-package
infrastructure.

So no, let's make things explicit: Qemu doesn't not use the autotools,
they have a custom configure script, custom Makefiles, so we have to
use the generic-package infrastructure here.

Best regards,

Thomas
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