[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 02/17] package/fftw: break fftw-single into a dedicated package

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2019-01-01 13:00 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 12:09:52 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > There is a minor nit, though: the various flavours do install some of
> > the same files. For example, with just this patch applied, and enabling
> > fftw-single and fftw's remaining long-double option:
[--SNIP--]
> Meh. This is not really nice. I see a few possible solutions:
> 
>  (1) Have the per-precision packages not install to STAGING/TARGET but
>      to some common intermediate location, and have the common fftw
>      package stay a real package, which does the actual final location.

That would be a first.

>  (2) Have the per-precision packages only install libraries, and
>      have the common fftw package install the rest that is
>      common/identical between variants.

I'm not convinced either...

> That being said, I still think (and it seems like your
> Reviewed-by/Tested-by also says the same) this patch series goes in the
> right direction, and we can live with this drawback for now.

Definitely. I have ideas on how to tackle this for the future...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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