Am 18.10.2011 um 10:55 schrieb Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>: > Am 18.10.2011 02:18, schrieb Alexander Graf: >> We have several targets in the PPC tree now that basically require libfdt >> to function properly, namely the pseries and the e500 targets. This >> dependency >> will rather increase than decrease in the future, so I want to make sure >> that people building shiny new 1.0 actually have libfdt installed to get >> rid of a few ifdefs in the code. >> >> Warning: This patch will likely make configure fail for people who don't >> select their own --target-list, but don't have libfdt development packages >> installed. However, we really need this new dependency to move on. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> > > openSUSE 12.1 has libfdt1-devel, but you should set up a submodule and > working build rules for Darwin, Haiku, etc. `make` doesn't fully work so > I used custom scripts to build the right parts and to manually "install" > the resulting binary and headers.
I don't fully understand. It's a build dependency, so whoever maintains libfdt / is interested in running ppc targets on those OSs needs to fix libfdt to build there. It's really the same as a dependency on glib or sdl or ... :). It's just less well known (and less active as a project). Alex >
