[Buildroot] host-gettext build failure (emacs dependency?)

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 15:40:13 UTC 2013


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
>
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 15:58:06 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
>
>> But more generally, I wonder why host-gettext needs/uses emacs at all.
>> The target gettext already disables several things:
>> GETTEXT_CONF_OPT += \
>>         --disable-libasprintf \
>>         --disable-acl \
>>         --disable-openmp \
>>         --disable-rpath \
>>         --disable-java \
>>         --disable-native-java \
>>         --disable-csharp \
>>         --disable-relocatable \
>>         --without-emacs
>>
>> but the host-gettext seems to be full. Do we really need e.g. emacs
>> support for host-gettext? What about csharp, java, native-java?
>
> Hum:
>
> HOST_GETTEXT_CONF_OPT = \
>         --disable-libasprintf \
>         --disable-acl \
>         --disable-openmp \
>         --disable-rpath \
>         --disable-java \
>         --disable-native-java \
>         --disable-csharp \
>         --disable-relocatable \
>         --without-emacs
>
> So we also disable Emacs support and lots of other stuff.
>
> I guess you don't have 0d4133edfedd8ca641db39d3eec9dc7146c8fa4e, which
> has been merged post 2013.05.

Aha!
Thanks for the pointer. This was indeed observed on a 2013.05 release.
I'll backport the patch...

Thanks again,
Thomas



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