From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:34:34 -0300
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] dependencies: Add host prerequisite for
	elf2flt
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On 09/04/2013 05:51 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> I don't think host-elf2flt should be added at this level of dependency.
> If I understand correctly elf2flt, it interfaces with the linker, so I
> believe making elf2flt a dependency of binutils would probably make a
> bit more sense.

It's already done correctly in the dependency deparment...

HOST_ELF2FLT_DEPENDENCIES = host-binutils host-zlib

The problem is it's never pulled in when it's necessary - before the
real packages start building, so adding it up as a gcc dep when
BR2_BINFMT_FLAT=y would be appropiate.

Regards.