[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] openssl: always build apps

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 07/02/15 12:04, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Benoît Thébaudeau,
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:58:01 +0200, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
> 
>> Yes. My intent was to keep the rules minimal, but I agree that it is better as
>> you suggest. I will send a v2.
> 
> Great, thanks.
> 
>> I have a question about the management of the scripts depending on Perl, though.
>> Doing as you suggest hides this behavior in the .mk, so the users won't know
>> that they have a choice just by looking at the configuration. Do you think that
>> it does not really matter, or that a comment or a depends on / select should be
>> added to the Config.in?
> 
> We generally try to not clutter menuconfig with too many
> comments/options: we can't make visible in menuconfig every little
> possible dependency. That's why we use a lot of "automatic optional
> dependencies": a package automatically uses another package if it is
> available, without having this dependency visible from a
> menuconfig/Config.in point of view.

 We (or at least, I) do like to have such a thing mentioned in the help text,
however. The help text does not clutter the menus so there is no reason to be
terse there.


 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> I think it's a bit the same here. If you know you need that specific
> Perl script from OpenSSL, then we assume that you are smart enough to
> realize that you might need to enable a Perl interpreter for your
> target.
> 
> Yes: we do believe our users are smart! :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
> 


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