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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 22:38:03 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/libbsd: depends on architectures
 providing a.out.h
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Peter, All,

On 2013-06-05 21:00 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:
> 
>  Yann> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
>  Yann> libbsd requires a.out.h, which is only available in a select subset
>  Yann> of the architectures Buildroot supports.
> 
>  Yann> This means libedit can no longer 'select' libbsd, so turn the 'select'
>  Yann> into a 'depends on'. And the dependency chain ends there.
> 
> Why? You can just propagate the arch dependencies to libedit as well.

Sure, will do.

> I don't like dependencies for libraries, it isn't obvious to people that
> we actually have a libedit package.

I don't like propagating the dependencies. ;-)

I wonder if I should revive the _AVAILABLE stuff from last year? But
that's for another thread.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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