[Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for 2014-09-09

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 10 08:52:54 UTC 2014


Dear Peter Korsgaard,

On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:42:58 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > So the policy is now that curses is no longer mandatory, and we should
>  > depend on host-ncurses when needed?
> 
> Wasn't that just what we agreed upon? We require it on the host for the
> menuconfig target, but build host-ncurses for the packages that need it.

It wasn't entirely clear to me that we had reached an agreement. But
I'm ok with this decision, so fair enough. It however means that we
should *remove* libncurses-dev from the autobuilder chroots when
possible.

>  > Maybe we could also add a depends on BR2_arm, because building
>  > snowball-hdmiservice on Blackfin seems a bit odd :)
> 
> Yes, or simply deprecate the snowball packages. The board isn't
> available any more and imho had quite a small community.

Indeed.

Thomas
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