[Buildroot] [RFC] Move host-pkgconf dependency to package/pkg-autotools.mk
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Apr 11 07:47:25 UTC 2015
Arnout,
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:31:01 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> I agree that something like that is the way to go.
>
> However, I would prefer that this kind of stuff:
>
> - goes into scripts in the support/ directory;
>
> - gets called from the GLOBAL_INSTRUMENTATION_HOOKS;
>
> - is selectable with a config option in the Build options menu (which would be
> enabled by the autobuilders).
>
> My reasoning is that the BR infrastructure is already pretty darn complicated,
> so it would be good to separate the core infrastructure from the fringe stuff.
> And the config option is of course because I prefer to keep the developer stuff
> out of the way of normal users.
I fully agree with these suggestions. I think you already made them on
my previous posting of a patch doing this check, and it's just that I
haven't taken the time to prepare a new version of the patch.
Thanks,
Thomas
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