[Buildroot] [RFC] package/gdb: simplify the disable doc hook

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Feb 1 15:01:23 UTC 2016


Romain,

On Mon,  1 Feb 2016 15:22:27 +0100, Romain Naour wrote:

> diff --git a/package/gdb/gdb.mk b/package/gdb/gdb.mk
> index 3b0f501..65b2e67 100644
> --- a/package/gdb/gdb.mk
> +++ b/package/gdb/gdb.mk
> @@ -53,13 +53,8 @@ endif
>  
>  # Prevent gdb to build the documentation
>  define GDB_DISABLE_DOC
> -	$(SED) '/^SUBDIRS =/ s/doc//' $(@D)/gdb/Makefile.in
> -	if test -e $(@D)/bfd/doc/Makefile.in ; then \
> -		$(SED) 's/^INFO_DEPS =.*$$/INFO_DEPS =/' $(@D)/bfd/doc/Makefile.in ; \
> -	fi
> -	if test -e $(@D)/gprof/Makefile.in ; then \
> -		$(SED) 's/^INFO_DEPS =.*$$/INFO_DEPS =/' $(@D)/gprof/Makefile.in ; \
> -	fi
> +	echo "#!/bin/sh" > $(@D)/missing
> +	echo "exit 0" >> $(@D)/missing

Is "missing" only used to check for makeinfo, or also for other things ?

We also have makeinfo related hacks in the gcc and binutils packages,
which basically consists in pointing them to "missing" as being the
makeinfo program.

It is really annoying that we have to do those hacks :-/

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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