[Buildroot] [PATCH] lirc-tools: fix build with host python3

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Thomas,

On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 05:28:57PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Sun,  5 Apr 2015 18:26:06 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > Add an upstream patch making make_rel_symlink.py python3 compatible and making
> > python3 mandatory. Update lirc-tools dependencies accordingly.
> > 
> > Fixes:
> > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/6c6/6c6e014a751650c16d25dfd3d673bd3199c72b2e/
> > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/857/85724dfd014cec5a80dd18a635826daa2edc1417/
> > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/a74/a74563f700a47065ffd1ba42c83c2d7722bacd89/
> > 
> > and many others.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> 
> Is host-python3 actually mandatory? When BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 is not
> enabled, it can perfectly fine use the host python?
> 
> So what about:
> 
>  * Using #!/usr/bin/env python in the script, and make the script both
>    python 2 and python 3 compliant.
> 
>  * Use $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3),host-python3) in the dependencies ?

Are both needed? If the script is compliant with both python2 and python3, 
then we can rely on the host provided python in case host-python3 has not been 
built by the time lirc-tools builds, isn't it?

baruch

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