[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] jq: enable host package

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 21-10-15 22:39, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:42:09 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
>> From: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
>>
>> Allow building jq as host utility for use in post-build scripts.
>> This can be useful to created, edit, merge or even perform syntax checking
>> on JSON files.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
> 
> Since this host package clearly doesn't fall into the "debugging tool,
> flashing tool or image preparation tool" category, I'd like to collect
> the opinion of a few other developers before applying.
> 
> Peter, Arnout, Yann, what do you think?

 I was thinking the same thing when I say the patch, but I don't care enough to
really comment on it. It's a bit similar to packages that depend on some host
preprocessing tool, like flex. But then of course we just have a dependency and
not a Config.in.host.

 OTOH, if we accept this, it kind of opens the doors to support almost
everything as a host package. But maybe there's nothing wrong with that either.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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