[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] svgtiny: update source url

Fabio Porcedda fabio.porcedda at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 16:51:21 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Fabio Porcedda,
>
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:29:06 +0100, Fabio Porcedda wrote:
>
>> Yes, the repository is:
>> http://git.netsurf-browser.org/buildsystem.git/
>>
>> But those sources alone do nothing, the build and install target of
>> this package will be empty.
>> Also to use those files at least a symbolic link must be added to the
>> libsvgtiniy directory to access buildsystem.git files.
>> Considering all of this it is still preferably worth adding a separate
>> package for those files?
>
> Yes, I personally believe it's preferable to have a separate package.
> Create a netsurf-buildsystem package, which installs those files to
> $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/share/netsurf-buildsystem/ for example. Then
> libsvgtiny would depend on netsurf-buildsystem, and in a post-extract
> hook, create the necessary symlink.

Ok.

> Not sure if netsurf-buildsystem should be a target package (and install
> its stuff to staging) or a host package (and install its stuff to
> HOST_DIR).

IMHO it's a build tool like autoconf, automake, so it's a host package.

BR
-- 
Fabio Porcedda


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