[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/8] flex: add flex-host package (required by webkit)
Lionel Landwerlin
llandwerlin at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 18:04:49 UTC 2009
Le dimanche 15 novembre 2009 à 17:18 +0100, Peter Korsgaard a écrit :
> >>>>> "Lionel" == Lionel Landwerlin <llandwerlin at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> >> BTW, why do we need to build flex for the host ? flex is part of the
> >> few tools that we consider to be a dependency of Buildroot.
>
> Lionel> It's required to build webkit. I didn't notice the problem until I built
> Lionel> it on a host system where it wasn't installed.
>
> Didn't the dependencies.sh check error out?
>
> sudo mv /usr/bin/flex{,-backup}
> make
>
> flex installed: FALSE
>
>
> You must install 'flex' on your build machine
>
> make: *** [dependencies] Error 1
>
I will recheck again tomorrow, it was on a machine at work (RH
enterprise 5).
By the way, what's the policy about host packages that should be
included in buildroot ?
Regards,
--
Lionel Landwerlin
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