From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package: deprecate some more development tools
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:57:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131227195731.33306262@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1388145020-2082-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Dear Thomas Petazzoni,
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:50:20 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Since some time, we have removed the support to build a toolchain for
> the target, and therefore the support for several development tools on
> the target.
>
> This commit deprecates a few additional development tools: m4, bison,
> flex and gob2. For flex, we retain the ability to build libfl, we only
> deprecated the ability to build the flex binary itself.
>
> The original motivation for this patch is that m4 is causing build
> issues in some configurations, but there isn't really much incentive
> to fix this package for the target, since it is not really useful for
> embedded Linux systems.
>
> Bison, Flex and Gob2 are deprecated because they are reverse
> dependencies of m4.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> ---
> package/bison/Config.in | 2 ++
> package/flex/Config.in | 2 ++
> package/gob2/Config.in | 2 ++
> package/m4/Config.in | 2 ++
> 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
Applied.
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-27 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-27 11:50 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package: deprecate some more development tools Thomas Petazzoni
2013-12-27 13:14 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-12-27 18:57 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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