[Buildroot] adding applications

Bernhard Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 20:29:35 UTC 2007


On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:41:46PM +0200, Geerts Steven wrote:
>All
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>I would like to know how I can add dependencies when building extra
>packages.
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>For example I need to build an appilication, but before building this
>application I need to have a certain library.  Is this been taking care
>of by buildroot or do I need to specify this.
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>Is the following possible to be sure that the libxxx is build before
>building the test application?
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>ifeq ($(strip $(BR2_PACKAGE_TEST)),y)
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>TARGETS+= libxxx test
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>Endif
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>Or is this specified in the Config.in?

first, you sent that question to the busybox list where the buildroot
list would have been the proper place ;)

second, see e.g. dialog and it's dependency on ncurses as a reference.

HTH,



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