[uClibc] Buildroot package placement policy/style question...

Thomas Cameron tom at drdabbles.us
Tue Jan 18 22:17:43 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:14 pm, George Joseph wrote:
> How should packages that are run on both the build host and target host be
> handled?  I'm thinking about packages like mtd where you need mkfs.jffs2 to
> run on the build host to create a fs, but also want the same set of tools
> compiled to run on the target host.
>
> Right now, cramfs, genext2fs, mtd and squashfs all get built in the
> build_(armeb in my case)  directory even though they're compiled to run on
> the local host.  Maybe they should be moved to toolchain/toolchain_build?
> This way you could have versions compiled for the target in build_ where
> they belong without conflicting with the versions needed for the build
> process.
>
> Thoughts?

I'm in complete agreement. Anybody have a good reason NOT to do this?

-- 
Tom Cameron
tom<at>drdabbles<dot>us
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