[Buildroot] [PATCH] fontconfig: needs host-gperf

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Mar 2 08:25:53 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:03:53 +0530, Rahul Bedarkar wrote:
> Commit 701380c53b4d("fontconfig: add build fix for glibc 2.25") added
> a patch that touches src/fcobjs.h. Package build system detects change
> in timestamp and tries to regenerate fcobjshash.gperf which requires
> gperf tool. So this commit adds dependency on host-gperf.
> 
> Since the patch is in upstream fontconfig, we can get rid of this
> dependency once version is bumped next time.
> 
> Fixes:
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/174/17471088b26ebc840d1922d7f2aa9e69b4b49ced
> 
> Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>
> Signed-off-by: Rahul Bedarkar <rahul.bedarkar at imgtec.com>

I've applied to master, with one little change, see below.

> +# When bumping version next time, we can get rid of dependency on host-gperf

Rather than talking about "bumping version next time", I changed this
to "When patch ... is removed, the host-gperf dependency should be
removed".

Peter: this does not need to go to the LTS branch.

Thomas
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