[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: clarify the <PKG>_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES guarantee
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Feb 23 08:32:27 UTC 2020
Baruch, All,
On 2020-02-21 07:34 +0200, Baruch Siach spake thusly:
> Unlike <PKG>_DEPENDENCIES, <PKG>_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES only guarantees
> extract and patch of listed dependencies, not build. Make this subtlety
> more explicit in the documentation.
>
> Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> ---
> docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
> index 59cdb7ffd72d..82d97854dde4 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
> @@ -374,9 +374,9 @@ not and can not work as people would expect it should:
> * +LIBFOO_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies (in terms of
> package name) that are required for the current package to be
> patched. These dependencies are guaranteed to be extracted and
> - patched before the current package is patched. In a similar way,
> - +HOST_LIBFOO_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies for the
> - current host package.
> + patched (but not necessarily be built) before the current package
Here I dropped the 'be' in front of 'built'.
Applied to master, thanks! :-)
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> + is patched. In a similar way, +HOST_LIBFOO_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES+ lists
> + the dependencies for the current host package.
> This is seldom used; usually, +LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+ is what you
> really want to use.
>
> --
> 2.25.0
>
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