[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/20] Some new Perl modules

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

Dear Bernd Kuhls,

On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:00:14 +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote:

> perl-mail-spamassassin checks for the presence of some dependency modules 
> during its configuration phase and stops if they can not be found, like:
> 
> dependency check complete...
> 
> REQUIRED module missing: HTML::Parser
> REQUIRED module missing: Net::DNS
> REQUIRED module missing: NetAddr::IP
> 
> After
> 
> $ make host-perl-html-parser
> 
> this list will be shorter:
> 
> dependency check complete...
> 
> REQUIRED module missing: Net::DNS
> REQUIRED module missing: NetAddr::IP
> 
> This serves just as an example, having these host modules installed makes 
> SpamAssassin_s configure happy ;)

Right, but isn't this an ugly workaround? They are not really needed on
the host, only to make spamassassin believe they will be on the target.
Isn't there a better solution?

Fran?ois, maybe you have an idea?

Thanks,

Thomas
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