[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/11 v4] package/python-lxml: new package

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Yegor, All,

On 2015-01-18 20:14 +0100, Yegor Yefremov spake thusly:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > Yegor, All,
> >
> > On 2015-01-18 18:27 +0100, Yegor Yefremov spake thusly:
> >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> >> > The lxml XML toolkit is a Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2
> >> > and libxslt.
> >> Trying to build lxml as normal package and get following error:
> >
> > You mean, as a target package?
> >
> > It can not work as-is, because I only declared the host variant.
> > You'd have to add the target variant if you want the target package.
> 
> I've created needed files like Config.in etc.

OK, I guessed you did, but was trying the obvious... ;-)

[--SNIP--]
> >> compilation terminated.
> >
> > Well, I just tried, and it builds fine, even when I remove the libxml2
> > development files from my host:
[--SNIP--]
> >
> > I don't know what would break for the target package. Maybe it includes
> > unsafe paths (-I and/or -L) ?
> 
> Have you also installed libxslt-dev on your PC?

No, I do not have libxslt development files installed on the host.

> After I've done this,
> I could cross-compile lxml, but it is not very "legal" approach :-)

Smells like unclean include paths to me. I'll investigate further on the
target-side package

Adding the target variant can come in a later patch, no? And that should
not impact the host variant from being comitted as-is, would it?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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