[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] dependencies.mk: check for valid host-tar before other host dependencies

Matthew Weber matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com
Tue Feb 27 14:36:54 UTC 2018


All,

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:55 AM, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:
> host-{cmake,lzip,xz} needs host-tar to extract their source code tarball, so
> we need to ensure that host-tar gets added to DEPENDENCIES_HOST_PREREQ
> before these in case they are both needed, otherwise the tools will fail to
> extract.
>
> With the upcoming change to blacklist modern tar versions this situation is
> likely to trigger more often.
>
> The real solution to this issue is the <foo>_EXTRACT_DEPENDENCIES rework,
> but that series is a bit too intrusive to add this close to 2018.02, so
> therefore this hack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>

Reviewed-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com>



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