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From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] stress: disable documentation
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:43:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <526907E3.5020409@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXf6LXmuFppc4473+KC73LZmUjgk4h32p9Lx_6hANKmudRdDw@mail.gmail.com>

On 24/10/13 09:10, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
> <arnout@mind.be> wrote:
>> It fails to build with my makeinfo version. Note that the autobuilders don't
>> see this, probably because they don't have makeinfo installed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
>> ---
>>   package/stress/stress.mk | 5 ++++-
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/package/stress/stress.mk b/package/stress/stress.mk
>> index 63efb66..b058031 100644
>> --- a/package/stress/stress.mk
>> +++ b/package/stress/stress.mk
>> @@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ STRESS_AUTORECONF = YES
>>   #
>>   # If the BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB is not defined, we have to specify
>>   # --disable-static explicitly to get stress linked dynamically.
>> +#
>> +# Also, disable documentation by undefining makeinfo
>>   STRESS_CONF_OPT = \
>> -       $(if $(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),,--disable-static)
>> +       $(if $(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),,--disable-static) \
>> +       MAKEINFO=:
>
> What is the significance of this colon?

  It's just an empty command. I could have used 'true' as well. In 
practice, they're the same. However, POSIX defines 'true' to take no 
arguments, while ':' ignores its arguments, so ':' is more pedantically 
correct.


  Regards,
  Arnout
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-24 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-23 23:43 [Buildroot] [PATCH] stress: disable documentation Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-24  6:42 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-24  7:10 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-24 11:43   ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2013-10-24 13:13     ` Thomas De Schampheleire

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