From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:47:25 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC] Move host-pkgconf dependency to package/pkg-autotools.mk In-Reply-To: <55284115.40309@mind.be> References: <20150410141217.4bd2547c@free-electrons.com> <55284115.40309@mind.be> Message-ID: <20150411094725.5c29b312@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com