From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:18:22 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/libtool: Reduce target package to libltdl only In-Reply-To: References: <20181124165434.31651-1-alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com> <20181124184708.GB20308@scaer> <7ef83036-fe64-9ca2-e2d0-689f428f5fff@mind.be> <1543225130.5778.5.camel@Nokia-N900> Message-ID: <20181126111822.053c42a5@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:12:42 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > On second thought, maybe we should just remove the automatic inheritance for > _SUBDIR entirely. > > There are 15 host packages that set _SUBDIR. > > Of these, 6 are host-only (e.g. gcc) so the automatic inheritance is pointless. > > Of the remaining 9: > - 2 override only HOST_XXX_SUBDIR (asterisk, cxxtest). > - 1 has a different SUBDIR for host and target (gettext). > - 1 overrides HOST_XXX_SUBDIR back to its default (gdb). > - 1 defines both with the same value (icu). > - 4 actually use the inheritance (capnproto, libnspr, tcl, vim). > > So it hardly seems worth to have the automatic inheritance, if only 1/3 of its > occurences are actually useful. Dropping the automatic inheritance of _SUBDIR is fine with me. However, while we are talking about _SUBDIR, what about making progress on the discussion we had related to https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/list/?series=70199 ? :-) Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com