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* [Buildroot] libffi or the crazy world of toolchain options
@ 2012-08-25 15:06 Thomas Petazzoni
  2012-08-25 15:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] Adjust dependencies so that libffi is not used on unsupported systems Thomas Petazzoni
  2012-08-26 10:23 ` [Buildroot] libffi or the crazy world of toolchain options Yann E. MORIN
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Petazzoni @ 2012-08-25 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: buildroot

Hello,

I got sick of having build issues related to libffi needs of threads,
of the absence of support for sh2a in libffi, so I did the work needed
to ensure that libffi would not be used anymore in those two cases.

This is a boring work, because libffi is mandatory for Python and
glib2, and glib2 has a crazy number of reverse dependencies that do
"select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2", and therefore overstepping the
dependencies of glib2.

This patch, I hope, illustrate how crazy this story of "depends on"
needed for toolchain options has become. We need to find a solution
for this. Yann has proposed something (see
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-August/057144.html).

Opinions? My patch, or Yann's solution? Other solutions?

Thanks,

Thomas

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2012-08-26 10:23 ` [Buildroot] libffi or the crazy world of toolchain options Yann E. MORIN
2012-08-26 20:40   ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-08-26 22:43     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-08-28 17:14       ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-08-29 22:53     ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-08-30 21:38       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-08-30 22:35         ` Yann E. MORIN
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2012-08-31 22:13             ` Yann E. MORIN
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