[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1 v2] build host lz4 to support lz4 compression in the kernel.

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 23:55:01 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  Well, I'm in agreement with Johan's earlier statement that the overhead of the
> host-lz4 build is negligible. It takes 20 seconds on my laptop, of which 6 are
> buildroot overhead from parsing package/*/*.mk.

20 seconds, plus the host-lzop build time that we already build
unconditionally.

>  Peter said before that all this hacking of linux (or other) config files should
> be avoided, and I agree.

Correct, except when it's related to needed dependencies in Buildroot.

But if that's fine for everyone, I'm OK with merging an unconditional
host-lz4 dependency. I'll just follow what the consensus is on this
matter, since I don't feel like arguing too much on this
not-so-important issue.

Thanks for the feedback, definitely very useful to have the opinion of
others to help take a decision.

Thomas
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