[Buildroot] [Patch v2 1/9] skalibs: new package

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

Hello,

On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 14:40:02 +0100, Eric Le Bihan wrote:

> > And so it's really only the static library that needs to be removed:
> > the shared library is really not built/installed when shared libraries
> > are not enabled in the Buildroot configuration?  
> 
> Yes. When shared libraries are disabled in Buildroot configuration, they
> are not built.

OK, good!

> I've modified the package Makefiles for skalibs, execline, s6 and s6-rc
> to use --prefix=$(HOST_DIR)/usr when building the host variants:
> 
>  - for execline: adding --shebangdir=/usr/bin makes it generates correct
>    scripts for the target.
>  - for s6-rc: adding --libexecdir=/usr/libexec makes it generates
>    correct scripts/helpers for the target (thought some programs are not
>    usable on the host, but they are not used, so they will not be
>    installed).
> 
> So, I can get rid of the $(DESTDIR) trick in host variants.

Perfect!

> There has been a long delay between iterations because it allowed the
> maintainer to add proper support for uclibc-ng. And there are few
> releases during a year. So I waited until the "Fall 2016 release", so I
> could remove the libc limitations set in the previous patch series.
> 
> Next respin will be availble before Christmas :-D

Good. I'll try to have a look as soon as the patches are there and
hopefully apply them.

Thanks,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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