[Buildroot] [RFC] Move host-pkgconf dependency to package/pkg-autotools.mk

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Arnout,

On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:31:01 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  I agree that something like that is the way to go.
> 
>  However, I would prefer that this kind of stuff:
> 
> - goes into scripts in the support/ directory;
> 
> - gets called from the GLOBAL_INSTRUMENTATION_HOOKS;
> 
> - is selectable with a config option in the Build options menu (which would be
> enabled by the autobuilders).
> 
>  My reasoning is that the BR infrastructure is already pretty darn complicated,
> so it would be good to separate the core infrastructure from the fringe stuff.
> And the config option is of course because I prefer to keep the developer stuff
> out of the way of normal users.

I fully agree with these suggestions. I think you already made them on
my previous posting of a patch doing this check, and it's just that I
haven't taken the time to prepare a new version of the patch.

Thanks,

Thomas
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