[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/4] package/avrdude: depends on libftdi1 instead of libftdi

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Mar 17 16:48:36 UTC 2015


Dear Samuel Martin,

On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:24:07 +0100, Samuel Martin wrote:

> Well, my first thought was simply to drop the libftdi support because
> of the additional dependency it pulls (libusb-compat):
> - with dependency on libftdi:
>   arvdude -> libftdi -> libusb-compat -> libusb
> - with dependency on libftdi1:
>   arvdude -> libftdi1 -> libusb
> 
> Note that, the configure script uses libftdi1 (if found) in priority
> over libftdi.

Yes, but what happens if the user has BR2_PACKAGE_AVRDUDE=y and
BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFTDI=y ? Then with your patch, we have an "undefined
behavior": if libftdi happens to be built before avrdude, avrdude will
have libftdi support, otherwise not.

Unless of course you propose a patch that allows to explicitly
enable/disable libftdi support in avrdude. But otherwise, if avrdude
*can* use libftdi, then it should have an optional dependency on it.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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