[Buildroot] [PATCH v4] linux-headers: allow use of headers from kernel "package" selected

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jan 19 10:31:54 UTC 2016


Dear Peter Korsgaard,

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:29:08 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

> Well, linux-headers doesn't need to do much - So with a bit of care I
> think you can.
> 
> E.G. something like (completely untested):
> 
> ifeq ($(LINUX_HEADERS_FROM_KERNEL),y)
> # no source
> LINUX_HEADERS_SOURCE =
> LINUX_HEADERS_DEPENDENCIES += linux-configure

The configure step of a package depends on the dependencies of that
package. So linux-configure depends on toolchain. And toolchain depends
on linux-headers -> recursive dependency.

Another try ? :-)

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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