[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/espeak: add comment to ignore 'unmet dependencies'

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2017-05-08 21:49 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun,  7 May 2017 22:38:56 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On master 86b4eeccc4, espeak can generate spurious 'unmet dependencies'
> > messages:
> > 
> >     $ make KCONFIG_SEED=0x7A85DEE0 randconfig
> >     warning: (BR2_PACKAGE_ESPEAK_AUDIO_BACKEND_ALSA) selects
> >     BR2_PACKAGE_PORTAUDIO_CXX which has unmet directdependencies
> >     (BR2_PACKAGE_PORTAUDIO && BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP)
> > 
> > However, the dpendency chain *is* correct. There is something that
> > causes the kconfig parser to get really confused...
> > 
> > Add a comment statng the issue is spurious, so noone tries to fix it.
> 
> Indeed, I don't see anything wrong in this dependency chain.
> 
> >  config BR2_PACKAGE_ESPEAK_AUDIO_BACKEND_ALSA
> >  	bool "alsa via portaudio"
> > +	# Selecting portaudio generates spurious "unmet dependencies"
> > +	# warnings. Unless you are changing the dependencies of espeak
> > +	# or portaudio, just ignore those spurious warnings.
> >  	select BR2_PACKAGE_PORTAUDIO
> >  	select BR2_PACKAGE_PORTAUDIO_CXX
> 
> Perhaps we could simply add a "depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP" here,
> which most likely would silence the warning?

Nope, it does not work. The only thing that breaks the dependency chain
is that the select on portaudio be changed into a depends. I could well
provide a patch to that effect, but that not very user-firendly... :-/

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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