[Buildroot] [PATCH v3,2/2] librsvg: bump to version 2.42.5

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Jun 12 06:58:58 UTC 2018


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 15:38:57 +0200, Fabrice Fontaine wrote:
 >> - Add a dependency to host-cargo
 >> - Add a patch to set RUST_TARGET
 >> - Add a dependency to BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_RUSTC_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 >> - Forward this dependency to efl svg, enlightment, gst-plugins-bad and
 >> gst1-plugins-bad
 >> - Add hash for license file
 >> 
 >> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>

 > I've applied, after fixing the gst-plugins-bad and gst1-plugins-bad
 > packages, in which you forgot to propagate the new dependency to the
 > existing Config.in comments.

 > Generally speaking, I find it a bit annoying that those packages start
 > using Rust. Not because I have anything against Rust, but because:

 >  (1) It limits the support to a much smaller set of architectures. For
 >      example, it is not longer possible to build librsvg or its reverse
 >      dependencies on ARMv5 platforms.

 >  (2) It adds a fair amount of build time.

 > But well, if that's upstream decision, there's not much we can do
 > against it.

This also causes a number of issues for host-librsvg (which is a
dependency of libgtk3 and midori) when building for architectures not
supported by rust:

http://autobuild.buildroot.net/?reason=host-rustc

Care to take a look at propagating these new dependencies here?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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