[Buildroot] [PATCH 16/20] perl-http-entity-parser: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 21:35:31 +0200, Fran?ois Perrad wrote:

> > This line should be split with backslashes. Perhaps scancpan could be
> > improved to do that automatically ?
> >
> Good idea, I'll do this easy improvement.

Thanks.

> Currently, scancpan uses the same list of dependency for Config.in and
> perl-foo.mk.
> So, yes, many dependencies are just run time dependency.
> Real build time dependencies are :
>   - host(-perl-foo) dependencies
>   - native libraries dependencies which cannot be handled by scancpan
> 
> A fix for that requires rethinking of the logic of scancpan and serious
> testing.

I think we really want to solve this problem. Having extra build-time
dependencies is not nice, especially with the (hopefully coming)
top-level parallel build, as it will prevent additional parallelization
of the overall build process.

Is this something you could have a look at ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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