From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:58:01 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] linknx: select libcurl to fix autoreconf In-Reply-To: <20160329173313.GR2637@tarshish> References: <20160329150549.3e9fdb7c@free-electrons.com> <20160329173313.GR2637@tarshish> Message-ID: <20160329195801.054c3b39@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:33:14 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote: > > It's not super nice to have to add this mandatory dependency for > > autoreconf, but we indeed don't really have the choice. We should > > remember to revert this patch once the linknx patch gets merged > > upstream, and we bump the version. However, it seems like linknx is not > > super active upstream, so in fact things might just stay forever as they > > are today. Oh well. > > A possible alternative is to have a local copy of libcurl.m4 for linknx, > either in a patch or standalone. Would you prefer that? Nah, I think it's better to depend on libcurl. It's not like it's a big dependency, and it's not like linknx is a very important package. So let's not spend too much time on this. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com