[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3 v3] linux: kconfig needs host-{flex, bison} to build the configurators

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

Thomas, All,

On 2018-08-14 21:53 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:27:43 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > Also, if we
> > > make bison/flex hard requirements of Buildroot, I'd like to have a
> > > clear rule on whether we keep or not our host-bison/host-flex packages,
> > > and if we keep them, when they should be used vs. when the system
> > > bison/flex should be used.  
> > 
> > My position is that we will always want to have our host flex and bison
> > to build packages that install things in host/, in staging/ or in
> > target/.
> > 
> > For the linux kernel and other kconfig-based packages, we don't care
> > which flex/bison are used, because the resulting binaries are not
> > installed, unless those packages also generate code eventually installed
> > in host/, staging/ or target/
> 
> So the system-wide bison/flex would only be used for the kconfig
> programs built by Buildroot itself (if we move to a newer kconfig
> version that doesn't have the pre-generated files) or by
> Linux/U-Boot/Busybox/Barebox. Any other use of flex/bison would use
> host-flex and host-bison. That's your proposal ?

Yes, that is my proposal.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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