[Buildroot] [RFC] [PATCH v2 2/2] support/kconfig: Bump to kconfig from Linux 4.17-rc2

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2018-05-19 23:03 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> If we were to drop the *shipped files, it means we would have to build
> host-flex and host-bison prior to running any "make *config" command.
> This would be really annoying.

And would requier quite a rework of the main Makefile, since we do not
include that pcakge .mk files until we do have a .coinfig file. So
currently, we can't have host-{flex,bison} before we have a .config.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> Alternatively, we could decide to make
> "flex" and "bison" mandatory dependencies of Buildroot, and rely on the
> user to install them on the system rather than building them ourselves.
> The drawback of this is that we would no longer control which version
> of flex/bison gets used.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
> -- 
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com

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