[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] ninja: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 20:03:01 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:

> Ninja is used by Meson, which I also provide for the target. It is true
> that the "Development tools" section now only lists "make" as build
> system, since autotools have been removed. I do not know if Buildroot
> users frequently need build systems on their target, but I provided it
> anyway.

"make" was only kept in the development tools because it was needed to
be able to *run* the uClibc test suite on the target. This has been
changed a few days ago, so I believe we don't really need "make"
anymore as a target package.

> If the policy is to provide build system packages only for the host,
> I'm fine with it.

Yes, please provide them only as host packages. However, do you have a
target package that would use them? Without this, the host packages are
orphan and never tested by anything, which isn't good.

So could you submit ninja/python-meson together with at least one
target package that uses them?

Thanks!

Thomas
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