[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] pyrex: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Mar 4 15:23:10 UTC 2014


Matt,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:16:20 -0600, mlweber1 at rockwellcollins.com wrote:

> > If I understand correctly what Pyrex is, it is a tool that generates C
> > code that then needs to be compiled with gcc. At least that's what I
> > understand from http://ldots.org/pyrex-guide/2-compiling.html.
> > 
> > Therefore, I am wondering how useful it is to support the installation
> > of python-pyrex to the target, while we don't have the support for
> > providing a compiler on the target.
> > 
> You are correct.  Our use case was just as a host tool to aid in our
> application build using the sysroot and not on target.

Ok, but then python-pyrex should be packaged as a host package, not as
a target package as you did, no?

Do you intend to resend an updated version which packages python-pyrex
as a host tool instead?

Thanks,

Thomas
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