[Buildroot] [RFCv2 2/3] gobject-introspection: new package

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for working on this hard problem.

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 04:23:54PM -0500, Adam Duskett wrote: 
> diff --git a/package/gobject-introspection/Config.in b/package/gobject-introspection/Config.in
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..42f58c8c0e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/gobject-introspection/Config.in
> @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION
> +	bool "gobject-introspection"
> +	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_QEMU_ARCH_SUPPORTS #host-qemu
> +	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libffi, libglib2
> +	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC
> +	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # python3, libglib2
> +	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # python3, libglib2 -> gettext
> +	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
> +	depends on !BR2_MIPS_NABI32
> +	depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL # qemu-host

So the target board (not only architecture) must be one that qemu emulates. 
This is a pretty big limitation. Since GI does not require any specific 
hardware, would it be possible to use the qemu user space emulator[1] instead?

[1] https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#QEMU-User-space-emulator

baruch

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