From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] support/dependencies: ensure we have 'file' on the host
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 22:30:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151128203041.GB2193@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1448654529-27021-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Hi Yann,
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 09:02:09PM +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> When 'file' is missing on the host, libtool fails miserably. Packages
> that use libtool will suddenly FTBFS, with cryptic error messages, like
> missing libraries on the linker invocation.
>
> We could ensure that autotools based packages now all depend on
> host-file. But It itself is an autotools package, so it's again a
> chicken-n-egg issue. And even non-autotools package may use libtool.
>
> So, just require that 'file' is present on the host.
The "Mandatory packages" section in docs/manual/prerequisite.txt should
mention that.
baruch
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-28 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-27 20:02 [Buildroot] [PATCH] support/dependencies: ensure we have 'file' on the host Yann E. MORIN
2015-11-27 21:19 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-11-27 23:04 ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-11-27 23:34 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-11-28 22:30 ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-11-28 20:30 ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2015-11-28 22:11 ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-11-29 22:04 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
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