[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] python-protobuf: Allow host building

[William Kennington]

Thomas,

The intention is to add nanopb as a host package for use in a library that
will also eventually be added. I can just add that to this patch series if
needed. I've never sent PR's via mail so I figured i would start with a
tiny one to try things out which is why I didn't also send nanopb.
Unfortunately the library depending on nanopb can't be added at this time
but I plan to have it upstream within a month.

Thanks,
William

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:32 AM Thomas Petazzoni <
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:12:12 -0800, William A. Kennington III wrote:
> > Currently python-protobuf does not allow the building as a host package
> > during a cross compile. We would like to be able to build nanopb as a
> > host package but can't without host-python-protobuf.
> >
> > Google-Bug-Id: 28000875
> > Change-Id: Id09f461bda3f9c7a0bd6b5c36a6a8fa92e4adb27
> > Signed-off-by: William A. Kennington III <wak at google.com>
>
> Thanks for this contribution!
>
> However, we don't really like to have "orphan" host packages, i.e host
> packages that are not a dependency of anything else in Buildroot.
>
> Do you intend to submit a Buildroot package for nanopb? Even if it's a
> host package, it would probably be OK to have it in
> package/Config.in.host so that it appears in menuconfig.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
>
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