[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/python: fix building _hashlib of host-python

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:33:17 +0800, Diankun Zhang wrote:

> The python buildin module _hashlib has dependency on library
> libcrypto.so to provide the SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
> hash algorithms in addition to platform optimized versions
> of MD5 and SHA1. Adding host package dependency on host-openssl
> to support the building of _hashlib module for host-python.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Diankun Zhang <kundy.zhang at gmail.com>

Why do you need the _hashlib module in the host-python ?

Indeed, we try to avoid adding too many dependencies, and adding a new
dependency to host-python is going to increase the build time to a
large number of people who don't necessarily need the _hashlib module
in the host Python interpreter.

So could you explain why this is needed ?

Thanks!

Thomas
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