From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:16:18 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 22/22] cpio: new package In-Reply-To: References: <1433251718-3167-1-git-send-email-clayton.shotwell@rockwellcollins.com> <1433251718-3167-23-git-send-email-clayton.shotwell@rockwellcollins.com> <20150706123840.61ff3672@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20150711001618.44eb6d3c@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Clayton, On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:02:41 -0500, Clayton Shotwell wrote: > > What is the motivation to have a host variant of cpio? cpio is already > > part of the mandatory programs that Buildroot checks for at the > > beginning of every build: it must be installed on the host system prior > > to running Buildroot. > > Well I am not using it for anything in particular, I really just need > the target variant. I can remove the host option without any impact to > anything. Well, if you don't use it, then I'd prefer to not support the host build, especially since cpio is already a mandatory dependency of Buildroot. We do have cases (like tar) where we support building a host option even if it's a mandatory dependency, because some platforms have a too old tar for Buildroot. > > > If the ArchLinux patches apply without any adaptation, have you > > considered using: > > > > CPIO_PATCH = \ > > https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/cpio-2.11-stdio.in.patch?h=packages/cpio \ > > ... > > > > instead ? > > I always forget that is an option because I cannot freely download > stuff behind our firewall. I'll look at changing the patches to links > to make things simpler but I may have issues testing that all the > links work properly. I can test before committing, no problem with that. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com