[Buildroot] [PATCH] gdb: prevent building the documentation

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 08-09-15 15:22, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
> gdb needs makeinfo to build the documentation. Since we do not provide a
> host-makeinfo package this will fail in any system where makeinfo is
> missing. However, we can workaround this problem by preventing gdb to
> build the documentation.
> 
> Fixes:
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/dd5/dd50ed99abb2c8495def826866b184030953f90e/

 Thomas prefers this solution and I agree.

 However, there is one thing missing in this patch: removing the now-redundant
dependency on host-texinfo.

 Still, that can be done as a follow-up patch, so:

Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>


 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
> ---
>  package/gdb/gdb.mk |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/gdb/gdb.mk b/package/gdb/gdb.mk
> index 338de20..7a8f8c7 100644
> --- a/package/gdb/gdb.mk
> +++ b/package/gdb/gdb.mk
> @@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ else
>  GDB_CONF_OPTS += --without-zlib
>  endif
>  
> +# Prevent gdb to build the documentation
> +define GDB_DISABLE_DOC
> +$(SED) '/^SUBDIRS =/ s/doc//' $(@D)/gdb/Makefile.in
> +endef
> +GDB_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += GDB_DISABLE_DOC
> +
>  # This removes some unneeded Python scripts and XML target description
>  # files that are not useful for a normal usage of the debugger.
>  define GDB_REMOVE_UNNEEDED_FILES
> 


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