[Buildroot] [PATCH 10/12] pkg-infra: ensure gettext gets built before all other packages

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 09/02/12 17:43, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> If the gettext package is selected, it means that the toolchain does not
> provide gettext functionality, and that at least one package needs it.
> Thus, the gettext package needs to be built before any such package.
>
> So far, packages that need gettext declare an explicit conditional
> build-dependency upon gettext, thus ensuring that gettext be built
> before they are.
>
> But if gettext was built first, packages would no longer need to declare
> such an explicit build-dependency.
>
> As it is not easy to ensure that gettext be the first package, we can also
> declare it as a dependency of all packages (except itself, of course).


  I don't like this.  I don't like the idea of having redundant dependencies,
I don't like to have a single thing that everything depends on, I don't like
the $(filter-out ...) construct.

  I also don't like that it breaks the build when the toolchain depends on some
package (sstrip, ccache, ...).

  Possible alternatives:

  * Use a construct similar to patch 11/12: $(gettext-dependency) which is
nothing unless gettext is enabled.

  * Move this dependency into the toolchain logic - which means duplicating
it three times so maybe not such a good idea...


  Regards,
  Arnout
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