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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] Sharing host-* tools
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 11:52:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180907095247.gapyqzetsp7vaoxb@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1536312271.8146.11.camel@erwinrol.com>

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:24:31AM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 09:04 +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > For most host-tools dev packages/prebuild archives[1] should work.
> > Not all packages create such an archive because they need to be relocatable
> > for this to work. Autotools for example.
> 
> From the docu;
> 
> "Neither host nor cross related packages support pre-built archives.
> These kind of packages are always (re-)built."

I'm pretty sure the docu is wrong / outdated here.

> Also all the warnings about being carefull doesn't make it sound like
> something that really works out of the box.

It works. You just need to know the limitations. It's better now that the
make and in files are checked. But there will always be some changes that
cannot be detected.
I'd be happy to hear any suggestions on how to improve this.

Michael

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      reply	other threads:[~2018-09-07  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-06 20:42 Erwin Rol
2018-09-07  7:04 ` Michael Olbrich
2018-09-07  9:24   ` Erwin Rol
2018-09-07  9:52     ` Michael Olbrich [this message]

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