[Buildroot] gdb texinfo dependency

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Oct 7 20:19:31 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 21:34:09 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> I think it is a matter of personal taste.
> The fact that : is a shell built-in means that it's a tad faster than
> spawning a separate 'true' process, but I really think it does not
> matter here.
> 'MAKEINFO=true' has the drawback that it gives the impression of
> _enabling_ makeinfo, to people that are not used to such
> constructions.
> 'MAKEINFO=:' has the drawback that it is cryptic; it is even less
> known to most people (I think).
> So I guess I'll stick to 'true'.

Yes, I also think that using "true" is less cryptic.

Thomas
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