[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/libbytesize: remove pcre2 runtime dependency

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Mar 28 14:52:28 UTC 2021


Stefan, All,

On 2021-03-25 17:41 +0100, Stefan Agner spake thusly:
> On 2021-03-25 16:39, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:40:36 +0100
> > Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch> wrote:
> >> Is there a way to have something as compile time dependency but not a
> >> runtime dependency?
> > No, because it is fairly uncommon to have something that is a compile
> > time dependency but not necessary at runtime. Do you have specific
> > examples in mind ?

Well, technically there are two cases:

  - dependencies on a host package
  - dependencies on a header-only package

However, even in the later case, the package that provides those headers
still needs to be enabled in the configuration and must also be built
and installed (actually, only installed as it is headers-only) before
the package that depends on it gets built.

I've marked the patch as rejected in Patchwork now.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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