[Buildroot] Analysis of build failures

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 14:17:21 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> An alternative is to use the suitable-host-package mechanism in such
> cases: if the host does have ncurses (but the same could be done for
> autoconf, automake, flex, bison, and other host packages) then build
> it inside buildroot. If it does, then just use them directly.
> Since the build of host-ncurses does take some time, it may be
> advantageous for the user to install ncurses on the host anyway, to
> avoid long build times, so a notice at the end of the build process to
> suggest that could be useful.

That's one option indeed, but I must say I don't like it that much. It
means that from one user to the other, the build behavior will be
different, not really a great thing.

Thomas
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