[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/espeak: add comment to ignore 'unmet dependencies'

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon May 8 19:49:11 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Sun,  7 May 2017 22:38:56 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On master 86b4eeccc4, espeak can generate spurious 'unmet dependencies'
> messages:
> 
>     $ make KCONFIG_SEED=0x7A85DEE0 randconfig
>     warning: (BR2_PACKAGE_ESPEAK_AUDIO_BACKEND_ALSA) selects
>     BR2_PACKAGE_PORTAUDIO_CXX which has unmet directdependencies
>     (BR2_PACKAGE_PORTAUDIO && BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP)
> 
> However, the dpendency chain *is* correct. There is something that
> causes the kconfig parser to get really confused...
> 
> Add a comment statng the issue is spurious, so noone tries to fix it.

Indeed, I don't see anything wrong in this dependency chain.

>  config BR2_PACKAGE_ESPEAK_AUDIO_BACKEND_ALSA
>  	bool "alsa via portaudio"
> +	# Selecting portaudio generates spurious "unmet dependencies"
> +	# warnings. Unless you are changing the dependencies of espeak
> +	# or portaudio, just ignore those spurious warnings.
>  	select BR2_PACKAGE_PORTAUDIO
>  	select BR2_PACKAGE_PORTAUDIO_CXX

Perhaps we could simply add a "depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP" here,
which most likely would silence the warning?

Thanks,

Thomas
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