[Buildroot] advice on makefile

[Nigel Kukard]

>  Nigel> Problem is I don't want to depend on the fixed library names
>  Nigel> .... would you suggest I depend on
>  Nigel> $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so ... etc?
> 
> Yes, but that breaks parallel builds. You have to tell make that it
> cannot start the configure step until those other libraries are
> installed into STAGING_DIR.
> 
> I know that the current approach of having to hardcode the file name
> used in the library .mk isn't really nice. We should probably come up
> with an agreement regarding a fixed target name / file for libraries
> to clean this up. Notice that this has to be a physical file name as a
> PHONY target like <package>-staging-install always will be considered
> out-of-date, so the configure target will rerun everytime you run
> make.

What is going on in libxml2.mk?  I need to add libxml as one of the
deps  :)

-N
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