From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>
Cc: Roy Kollen Svendsen <roykollensvendsen@gmail.com>,
buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/readline: link host shared library against ncurses
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:50:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <astNq9p7MlKwp2qG@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8006a4ffe97e560506b5e7dfa8634f18dceaae6b.camel@gmail.com>
On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 10:28:11AM +0200, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:
> This assumes that host-ncurses always builds the wide variant... Should we
> just mimic commit baa81362ef instead? Something like
>
> HOST_READLINE_CONF_ENV = $(READLINE_CONF_ENV)
> HOST_READLINE_CONF_OPTS = $(READLINE_CONF_OPTS)
I don't have the full context, but doing this is almost always a bad
idea. It easily breaks as people change target variable (CONF_ENV,
CONF_OPTS) without realizing it also affects the host package.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-02 11:47 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/readline: link host shared library against ncurses Roy Kollen Svendsen
2026-10-11 8:28 ` Alexander Sverdlin
2026-10-11 8:50 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2026-10-11 9:15 ` Alexander Sverdlin
2026-10-11 21:24 ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
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