[Buildroot] avahi dependencies on host tools

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 13:50:26 UTC 2009


2009/12/16 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to build the avahi package on a freshly installed Ubuntu system
> (which has almost zero development related packages installed), and the
> build failed because it couldn't find "intltool" on the host.
>
> Should we build this tool ourself, or should we rely on the user to
> install it ?
>
> This tool itself relies on Perl. Can we assume that host Perl is a
> mandatory dependency of Buildroot, or should we also build Perl ?

IMHO, I'd like for Buildroot to build the least amount of host tools so that
build times can be kept down. I often start from scratch... :-)

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman


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