On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 20:46 +0000, Slater, Joseph wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:45 AM > > To: Slater, Joseph > > Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] linuxdoc-tools: add dependency on texinfo > > > > On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 19:02 +0000, Slater, Joseph wrote: > > > I believe we will use the host makeinfo, if that exists, so we > > > won't automatically build texinfo-native. But, if we are building > > > it at the same time we are trying to run makeinfo, we might get > > > "our" version instead of the host's, and our version might not be > > > fully installed. At least, that looks like what happened for the > > > build failure this patch attempts to fix. > > > > It would help to have that in the commit message. > > > > Equally, does this really solve the problem or does it just move it > > elsewhere as other applications probably use makeinfo too? :/ > > It does just move it elsewhere. I don't know if texinfo would be basic > enough to force it to build early (I'm not sure how to do that), or if > we just expect packages that need it to depend on it.
Could we simply not install the makeinfo binary in texinfo-native and always use the one from the host? Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
