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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] dependencies: Add host prerequisite for elf2flt
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 13:19:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130904131900.7225d262@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52270CBA.1000603@zacarias.com.ar>

Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:34:34 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> On 09/04/2013 05:51 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > I don't think host-elf2flt should be added at this level of dependency.
> > If I understand correctly elf2flt, it interfaces with the linker, so I
> > believe making elf2flt a dependency of binutils would probably make a
> > bit more sense.
> 
> It's already done correctly in the dependency deparment...
> 
> HOST_ELF2FLT_DEPENDENCIES = host-binutils host-zlib

What I was suggesting is that host-elf2flt should have been a
dependency of host-binutils. But that's obviously wrong, since elf2flt
requires the libbfd library I suspect.

> The problem is it's never pulled in when it's necessary - before the
> real packages start building, so adding it up as a gcc dep when
> BR2_BINFMT_FLAT=y would be appropiate.

Indeed. If it's not needed during the gcc build, one solution is to add
its as a dependency in host-gcc-final.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-04 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-04  8:16 [Buildroot] [PATCH] dependencies: Add host prerequisite for elf2flt Axel Lin
2013-09-04  8:51 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-04 10:34   ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-09-04 11:19     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-09-04 11:27       ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-09-04 11:34         ` Thomas Petazzoni
     [not found]           ` <CAAXf6LW+C8GpD8vh4D3xQKNHggYOXmbG8xSRBttuYt8+usCnoA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-09-04 12:14             ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-09-04 12:16               ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-04 12:14           ` Thomas De Schampheleire

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