From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 01:01:43 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] python-colorama: new package In-Reply-To: <20150804194319.52c69bf2@free-electrons.com> References: <1438634219-22000-1-git-send-email-farina@datacom.ind.br> <20150804105537.3a5e47f6@free-electrons.com> <55C0BEC6.8040207@datacom.ind.br> <20150804153825.3a46c00e@free-electrons.com> <55C0CACA.4010105@datacom.ind.br> <20150804194319.52c69bf2@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <55ECC5D7.1000308@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 04-08-15 19:43, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:23:06 -0300, DATACOM - Farina wrote: > >> Our boards has PowerPC/ARM/MIPS running Linux. And also has ARM >> microcontrollers. >> >> So, when we build the main firmware (Linux + rootfs) with Buildroot, we >> also build the microcontroller firmware that goes inside the rootfs >> (using a secondary toolchain). >> >> With this way, we have just one build-system (Buildroot), with >> everything we need integrated on it. >> >> My apologies if it is not the Buildroot idea, but this kind of >> integration is facilitating our work. > > Interesting use of Buildroot, definitely! I think it makes a lot of > sense to use Buildroot this way, so I understand better what you did. > I'm still a bit reluctant to add host packages in Buildroot without > users, but at least there is a very useful and interesting use case > behind it, so I might be tempted to apply your patch with the host > package included. > > I'm obviously interested by the opinion of other Buildroot developers. I'm not so inclined to include this non-buildable package. I think it's possible to have a package/python-colorama/python-colorama.mk in BR2_EXTERNAL that includes the $(host-python-package). Regards, Arnout -- 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: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF