[Buildroot] [PATCH] fbgrab: explicitly build fbgrab target to workaround gzip issue

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed May 17 20:46:18 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> writes:

 > Fixes #9871
 > gzip reads default command line options from the environment variable GZIP.
 > The fbgrab Makefile internally also uses a GZIP make variable to know what
 > command to use to compress the manpage. Unfortunaly make will export the
 > value of this make variable to the environment if GZIP is already present in
 > the enviroment, confusing gzip (as 'gzip' isn't a valid command line argument).

 > This can either be triggered by users having GZIP set in their environment
 > (E.G.  for custom options), or by enabling BR2_REPRODUCIBLE, where we use
 > this feature to force the -n option (to not store name/timestamp) to gzip.

 > We don't really need to compress the manpage as it isn't installed anyway,
 > so work around the issue by only building the fbgrab application.

 > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>

Committed to 2017.02.x, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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