From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 10:38:47 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFCv1 00/11] Convert toolchain backends to packages to fix source/external-deps/legal-info In-Reply-To: References: <1378416469-17708-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20130906103847.662e1463@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Fabio Porcedda, On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 10:28:32 +0200, Fabio Porcedda wrote: > > In the long term, I'm thinking of: > > > > (1) Making 'toolchain' a dependency of all target packages, because > > it's really what it is. > > About that i've already sent a patch "package: add toolchain > dependency to inner-generic-package: > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/237887/ > > I will rebase and send the patch after i sent the v3 for the top-level > parallel make. Seems right, but it should remove "toolchain" from being pulled in the main Makefile. If all target packages already depend on it, there's no longer a reason to have "toolchain" be a special case target handled by the main Makefile (unless I'm missing something). Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com