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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] package/nfs-utils: enable IPv6 if libtirpc is selected
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:03:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190910180312.3e30d72f@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0209c0f3-3bdf-aa01-0c21-c5d775f819fc@mind.be>

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:23:15 +0200
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:

>  Oh dear, we're running in circles here...

Absolutely.

>  Due to the select, all of this becomes unconditional.
> 
>  In other words, we should:
> 
> - select libtirpc unconditionally;
> - add libtirpc to _DEPENDENCIES unconditionally;
> - add --enable-tirpc --enable-ipv6 to CONF_OPTS unconditionally;
> - leave the help text unchanged since libtirpc is anyway selected;
> - make it clear in the commit message that libtirpc is anyway selected by
> rpcbind, so we can just as well select it unconditionally in nfs-utils.

Fully agreed.

>  Again, I'm very sorry that it takes us five iterations and several months to
> come to this conclusion...

Yes, indeed. But sometimes that what it takes to finally understand
each other and find what the good solution is.

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-10 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-10 10:59 [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] package/nfs-utils: enable IPv6 if libtirpc is selected unixmania at gmail.com
2019-09-10 12:23 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2019-09-10 13:07   ` Carlos Santos
2019-09-10 16:04     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-09-10 16:42       ` Carlos Santos
2019-09-10 16:03   ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]

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