[Buildroot] [RFCv1 00/11] Convert toolchain backends to packages to fix source/external-deps/legal-info

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Sep 6 08:38:47 UTC 2013


Dear Fabio Porcedda,

On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 10:28:32 +0200, Fabio Porcedda wrote:

> > In the long term, I'm thinking of:
> >
> >  (1) Making 'toolchain' a dependency of all target packages, because
> >      it's really what it is.
> 
> About that i've already sent a patch "package: add toolchain
> dependency to inner-generic-package:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/237887/
> 
> I will rebase and send the patch after i sent the v3 for the top-level
> parallel make.

Seems right, but it should remove "toolchain" from being pulled in the
main Makefile. If all target packages already depend on it, there's no
longer a reason to have "toolchain" be a special case target handled by
the main Makefile (unless I'm missing something).

Best regards,

Thomas
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