[Buildroot] avahi dependencies on host tools

[Bjørn Forsman]

2009/12/16 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Le Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:50:26 +0100,
> Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> 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... :-)
>
> True, but on the other hand, the approach we've been following since
> Buildroot maintenance has been taken over by Peter is that we should
> only rely on "basic" tools on the host. That's the reason why we build
> autoconf, automake, glib, pkg-config and other stuff for the host as
> needed. It makes the compilation process a little longer, but on the
> other hand, it makes the build process a *lot* more predictable.
>
> In the past, we had tons of reports of build failures that were caused
> by issues in varying versions of the host tools. And these problems are
> particularly annoying since the Buildroot developers often can't
> reproduce them.

I see. And I do understand that having predictable builds is important. I'm
just a bit afraid that Buildroot will turn into OpenEmbedded some day :-)

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman