[Buildroot] dependencies calcualtion

[Peter Seiderer]

Hello daggs,

On Wed, 11 May 2016 22:32:25 +0200, daggs <daggs at gmx.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I got a question, how does a package knows of it's dependencies?
> for example, kodi needs libgles, lets assume that I'm using sunxi-mali which provides gles.
> how does buildroot know to compile sunxi-mali before it compiles kodi?
> 

From package/kodi/kodi.mk:

...
ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_KODI_EGL_GLES),y)
KODI_DEPENDENCIES += libegl libgles
...

From  package/sunxi-mali/sunxi-mali.mk:

...
SUNXI_MALI_PROVIDES = libegl libgles
...

Regards,
Peter

> Thanks.
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