[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/6] dbus: make it easier to select an XML library (select rather than depends on)

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Jan 31 13:01:28 UTC 2012


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 Arnout>  What does everybody think of the alternative (which Peter
 Arnout>  snipped here):

 Arnout>   An alternative would be to remove the choice completely, and
 Arnout>   to take the path of bluez-utils: select BR2_PACKAGE_EXPAT if
 Arnout>   !BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS_LIBXML2

 Arnout>  Advantage: no redundant expat library if the user has selected
 Arnout>  libxml2

 Arnout>  Disadvantage: what happens when the user has selected both
 Arnout> libxml2 and expat?  (My answer: dbus will use libxml2)

Or alternatively drop the libxml2 option. It's deprecated upstream and
not commonly used:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20253

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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