From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 00:29:07 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] package/gdb: host-texinfo needed for full gdb In-Reply-To: <55EF5C7D.3040908@openwide.fr> References: <1441740443-7280-1-git-send-email-brendanheading@gmail.com> <55EF582F.1090407@mind.be> <55EF5C7D.3040908@openwide.fr> Message-ID: <55EF6133.8060309@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 09-09-15 00:09, Romain Naour wrote: > Hi Arnout, All, > > Le 08/09/2015 23:50, Arnout Vandecappelle a ?crit : >> On 08-09-15 21:27, Brendan Heading wrote: >>> Fixes : >>> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/dd5/dd50ed99abb2c8495def826866b184030953f90e/ >> >> So, we now have three versions to fix this: >> >> Romain patches gdb to avoid recursing in the doc directory [1][2] >> Vicente does the same but with a sed instead of patch [3]. >> Brendan adds host-texinfo to dependencies (this patch) [4]. >> >> Which one do we choose? >> >> host-texinfo takes a bit of time to build because it also depends on >> host-ncurses, but it's not a huge problem. >> >> The best solution is adding an upstreamable --disable-doc, but that will take a >> bit of work still (esp. because we can't easily autoreconfigure). > > I sent a patch to gdb mailing list to add --disable-docs option but it's not > tested since I can't regenerate the configure script locally. > > See https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-09/msg00073.html > > I'm waiting for a review. > >> >> So for me Brendan's patch is fine. What do the others think? > > I would prefer to avoid host-texinfo dependency if possible. I agree, but perhaps we can commit Brendan's patch until the --disable-docs option is there. 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: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF