[Buildroot] [PATCH] gdb: disable source-highlight

[Bartosz Bilas]

Hello Thomas,

it seems you are right. I should have done tests using the docker 
instead of my arch OS. I'll try to send the patch today.

Best
Bartek
On 17.08.2023 12:27, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:43:19 +0200
> Bartosz Bilas <b.bilas at grinn-global.com> wrote:
>
>> host-gdb compiles without any problems so there is no need to do that.
> It compiles fine on your machine, but it picks up a dependency that is
> not controlled by Buildroot, so it's a bad idea. Therefore,
> --disable-source-highlight should also be passed to host-gdb. If
> someone one days needs source highlight, then a host source highlight
> package should be added in Buildroot, and used as a dependency of
> host-gdb. Even though we do rely on a number of system-provided tools
> (native toolchain, basic utilities), we try to limit the scope of this
> dependency on system-provided tools/libraries.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas