[Buildroot] Interesting circular dependency, how to solve?
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Thu Jul 7 17:00:24 UTC 2016
Thomas, Andy, All,
On 2016-07-06 20:20 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 17:54:01 +0000, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
> > > - When cryptodev-linux is enabled, OpenSSL will depend on it to use
> > > crypto accelerators supported in the kernel via cryptodev-linux.
> >
> > If I understand you correctly, this builds TWO things, right?
> >
> > If this is the case, make it separate packages to build the
> > kernel module then the userspace package.
>
> It builds a kernel module, so it has to depend on "linux", and it
> installs cryptodev.h, which OpenSSL needs. I am not sure splitting this
> package into two is really a good idea, though it would indeed solve
> the problem: all what OpenSSL needs at build time is the cryptodev.h
> header file. The kernel module can be built separately, and is only at
> runtime.
>
> So, yes, one possibility is to break cryptodev-linux into two packages.
But then we would probably have to do it for other packages that build
both a kernel module and userland stuff, no?
I'm not sure I like that... :-/
I think the best option would be to break at the linux-tools.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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