From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:31:10 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases In-Reply-To: <20090107202243.GA17480@zelow.no> (Thomas Lundquist's message of "Wed\, 7 Jan 2009 21\:22\:43 +0100") References: <87prj1v4dy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20090106140140.GA22854@zelow.no> <87aba4pj4w.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20090106183243.GA28479@zelow.no> <873afwnu6n.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231268970.32308.230.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <20090107184338.GA12169@zelow.no> <1231356377.32308.424.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <20090107202243.GA17480@zelow.no> Message-ID: <87mye2kgdt.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Lundquist writes: Thomas> If it is possible to know this, the opposite is possible too, Thomas> and that is to keep the available options instead of hiding Thomas> it but show / tell the user that this will result in a Thomas> recompiled toolchain. We already have this several places under packages/ comment "xorg requires a toolchain with LOCALE and WCHAR support" comment "iperf requires a toolchain with C++ support enabled" And so on. >> If you can change an option easily which forces the rebuild >> of a toolchian, then you can also change an option by >> mistake making you lose a couple of hours... No, as packages/* depends on toolchain settings, they don't select them. Thomas> Figuring out that the one little thing you wanted would be Thomas> available if you just turned on something in the toolchain Thomas> takes alot longer and frustrates alot more. That is the Thomas> *users* time wasted, not CPU time. Exactly, that's what the current comments are for. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard