From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:08:21 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] prepare build infrastructure to pick up installed meson tool In-Reply-To: References: <20191016111927.14208-1-nolange79@gmail.com> <20191016111927.14208-3-nolange79@gmail.com> <20191016154850.0d093c4d@windsurf> <20191016210129.4043da12@windsurf.home> <20191016201610.GG14656@scaer> Message-ID: <20191016230821.219cf441@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Norbert, On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:31:24 +0200 Norbert Lange wrote: > > So yes, ther are situations where using a system-provided meson _may_ > > work, but the generic case is that our patch is still required to ensure > > that the situatiuon dexribed above still works. > > Yes, you want to be able to build all packages in buildroot without issues. > My patch would not change that. You would need to set an variable > override to pick up the system meson/ninja. We don't want to have this code that is basically "dead" (because it can only be enabled by tweaking those variables in the environment). Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com