[Buildroot] [PATCH 02/10] core: add waf-package infra

[Lionel Orry]

Hi all,

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Thomas Petazzoni <
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:52:58 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>
> >  Well, it makes sense to me that a package infra does something like
> that, but
> > less so that the waf package itself would do it. And it's just simpler
> if the
> > dependency is only in the infra.
> >
> >  However, I wonder if we need this dependency at all. We already require
> a
> > python (although admittedly we don't check the version). The few
> packages that
> > don't support python3 can add the dependency themselves. Building
> host-python
> > really eats into the build time...
>
> Is waf python2/python3 compliant?
>

​Yes, see here : https://waf.io/book/#_how_to_run_waf​
AFAIK, there is an internal wrapper to make code compatible with both
versions (https://github.com/waf-project/waf/blob/master/waflib/fixpy2.py).

>
> Thomas
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​Kind regards,
Lionel​
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