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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 23:18:59 +0200
From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Subject: Re: mtd-utils: Swtich to autotools based build system
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Hello,

On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 23:04:58 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:

> Let's ask also package maintainers for their opinion.
> They have to (cross)build and package mtd-utils. :-)

I haven't tested David patches yet, but what I can say is that moving
to autotools is definitely a very, very wise move.
Non-standard hand-written Makefiles are really a pain.

I'll try to give it a test in terms of Buildroot packaging, and report
back.

Thanks,

Thomas
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