[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] rxvt-unicode: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Jan 4 16:23:12 UTC 2013


Dear Stefan Fröberg,

On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:28:47 +0200, Stefan Fröberg wrote:

> So for example in this elfutils case it should have been one big patch
> (because all those individual
> *.patch files are really needed to make it build).
>  
> And any extra patches in that series would just add features
> (like BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS_ZLiB_SUPPORT) or fix something ?
> 
> In other words, first patch is the buildable core and everything else
> optional ?

Yes, we could summarize it this way.

Or, as I said, since the biggest problem with elfutils is uClibc
support, the first patch could have added a glibc-only elfutils (which
proper depends on) and then a second patch could add the necessary
additional crap to make it uClibc friendly.

Best regards,

Thomas
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