[Buildroot] package hwloc does not install to staging

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 29 May 2017 16:20:46 -0700, Graham Holland wrote:

> I'm curious if there is a reason for the hwloc package not including
> the following:
> 
> HWLOC_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
> 
> so that the hwloc.h header is copied to the staging directory
> 
> I am porting a package that has a dependency on hwloc and which uses
> pkg-config in its build system to detect hwloc compiler flags. If I
> modify the hwloc.mk file to include the above, then this works
> correctly.

There is no specific reason other than the fact that nobody needed it
until now. So don't hesitate to send a patch adding
HWLOC_INSTALL_STAGING = YES (and possibly your additional package if
it's some public available software package).

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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