[Buildroot] [PATCH] hidapi: new package

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:22:10AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:50:51 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > Of course we could use ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGUDEV),y) here, but, for
> > > consistency with Config.in, I use ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD),y)
> > > instead. See for instance the udisks package.
> > 
> > I think this is wrong. First, consistency with Config.in calls for using 
> > BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGUDEV like we do with all other selects. But more
> > importantly, IMO, we only use the <pkg>_DEPENDENCIES variable to set
> > the build order which is conceptually independent of the underlying
> > reason we need this dependency, systemd in this case. I think that
> > all the other packages that Thomas mentioned should also test for
> > BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGUDEV when setting <pkg>_DEPENDENCIES.
> 
> I am not as clear-cut as you are on what is the correct thing to do
> here, but your reasoning seems reasonable to me. So we need to align
> the existing packages to do this, and also to use BR2_INIT_SYSTEMD in
> Config.in (udisks uses BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD). Will you send some patches
> or should I do so?

I'll send the patches later. Would you like one patch per package, or a single 
patch based on next?

baruch

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