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[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 11/05/14 16:55, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Arnout,
> 
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 04:42:54PM +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>> On 11/05/14 06:34, Baruch Siach wrote:
[snip]
>>> Your patch is correct, I guess, but as far as I understand it doesn't solve 
>>> the host architecture dependency problem that is causing the host-protobuf 
>>> failure above.
>>
>>  True. We could add a dependency on BR2_HOSTARCH for that. Except that Kconfig
>> doesn't support string comparison AFAIK. So we'd need to create bool symbols for
>> all the supported host architectures...
> 
> How would that solve the problem? Host packages are selected directly from 
> Makefiles, regardless of Kconfig settings, isn't it? Or do you intend to add 
> host architecture dependencies to all reverse dependencies of host-protobuf 
> (currently: protobuf-c, protobuf, python-protobuf, and their reverse 
> dependencies)?

 Exactly. But I don't really think it's worthwhile to do that - except for the
autobuilder, there is probably nobody who tries building on anything except x86.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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