[Buildroot] [PATCH 13/22] ncurses: enable shared library build on the host

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sun Mar 24 12:48:13 UTC 2013


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> On the host, we generally build and install a shared library
 Thomas> rather than a static version of libraries. In this specific
 Thomas> case, we will want to build host-gettext, which builds a shared
 Thomas> library that depends on ncurses. And this doesn't work well if
 Thomas> ncurses is static because it hasn't been built with
 Thomas> -fPIC. Therefore, let's build ncurses as shared on the host.

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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