[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] python-cython: new package for host only

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Jul 11 14:39:18 UTC 2015


Dear Peter Bouda,

On Thu, 28 May 2015 14:57:47 +0100, Peter Bouda wrote:
> This patch adds an .mk file for Cython. The package is host-only, as
> it is a dependency to pre-process Cython code on the host and
> is not needed as Python package on the target. It was tested
> with Python packages that require Cython. Packages that require it
> can then just use:
> 
> PYTHON_FOO_DEPENDENCIES = host-python-cython
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Bouda <pbouda at cidles.eu>
> ---
>  package/python-cython/python-cython.mk | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 package/python-cython/python-cython.mk

Thanks for this contribution. It seems potentially useful, but we
generally merge new host packages only when there is a target package
that also needs them.

Could you resubmit this as a patch series that also adds a target
package that needs this?

Thanks!

Thomas
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