[Buildroot] Patchwork cleanup week #24

Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Fri Jun 24 09:13:09 UTC 2016


Hi Thomas,

On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 09:32 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 07:24:37 +0000, Vlad Zakharov wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Returning to the problem. Real issue is that build fails when "makeinfo" is missing on build host.
> > So a nice and much easier idea is to add "makeinfo" package and make
> > binutils and gdb dependent on the "host-makeinfo" package.
> I indeed start to think that it's the only reasonable solution. The
> only thing I would like to see is this dependency being added only for
> binutils/gdb version that want to re-generate their documentation.
> Normally, binutils/gdb versions from release tarballs are fine and
> don't try to regenerate their documentation.

Agree. And we have necessary hooks already in place (remember that trick with "missing"
script) so that should be easy.

Still we'll need first to add makeinfo/texinfo package, right?

-Alexey


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