From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:07:42 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3 of 4 RFC] manual: add section about depending on toolchain options In-Reply-To: References: <89b40887c8268e316399.1379494896@argentina> <523A23E0.4040602@mind.be> Message-ID: <523B4B7E.9070204@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 19/09/13 09:23, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > Arnout, all, > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > [..] >> >> For the 'dynamic library' option, I don't think it's that important to add >> a comment for it. It's so exotic, and you probably select only very few >> packages in that case anyway, so the likelihood of someone encountering that >> situation is pretty slim. >> > > Well, I think this depends on the semantics of PREFER_STATIC_LIB or > the way we will handle the dynamic library option(s) in the future. If > there is really an option that says 'I want static libs', then I think > it makes sense to add a comment, because it's a user choice. If the > linking is only based on the architecture supporting it or not, and > the user will get dynamic libs when supported, then a comment is not > needed. > > Based on the discussion so far, I don't think we should try to fix the > situation in the context of this patchset, but rather in a separate > one. I would therefore propose, for this patchset, to keep the current > situation and the documentation as proposed in the patch. Later, any > needed changes can be made when the dynamic library handling is > cleared out. In the mean time, I will not add new comments for > packages that depend on !STATIC but do not yet have a comment, as this > may be wasted effort. > > What do you think? Good idea. Regards, Arnout [snip] -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F