[Buildroot] gdb texinfo dependency

[Khem Raj]

> On Oct 7, 2016, at 5:21 AM, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 21:50:12 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> 
>> But also, is it possible that you did not see the two questions at the
>> bottom of my mail?
> 
> No, I did not see those questions.
> 
>> 1. What about fixing it in pkg-generic.mk for all packages?
> 
> From a quick grep, it seems like we have 6 packages today that pass
> MAKEINFO=true or MAKEINFO=:, with binutils and gdb that would be 8
> packages. I'm not sure we've reached the point where moving it to the
> common package infrastructure makes sense.

I think for target packages ignoring info files is fine for small
systems and other doc related code like manpages.
for host packages may be it is still useful

> 
>> 2. What about using ':' instead of 'true'?
> 
> I don't really see the difference between the two. I guess ':' is a
> shell built-in, and 'true' is a proper separate command. But I'm not
> sure why we would use one instead of the other.
> 
> Thomas
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