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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>,
	Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
Subject: Re: integrating dtc into the sim/ tree
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140820095347.GH4828@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1732783.0nBxt22mln@vapier>

> so after talking to myself, i guess the issue isn't so much with using
> the system copy of dtc as it is with making it a hard requirement
> (which is different from how the other packages use 3rd party libs --
> they're all optional).  might be able to reduce the requirement so
> only the hw layers hard depend on it, but i'm not sure if even that is
> possible.

OK. Is that dependency on dtc something new? Or was it there already
for certain sims and not others?

Dependency requirements like these should be discussed on a
case-per-case basis, I think. And the answers to the questions
you ask above (can it be made optional, what functionality gets
lost, etc) definitely influence the decision.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-18 22:14 gdb moxie build failure Joel Sherrill
2014-08-19  5:38 ` integrating dtc into the sim/ tree Mike Frysinger
2014-08-19  6:26   ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-20  9:33     ` Mike Frysinger
2014-08-20  9:53       ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2014-08-20 15:30         ` Mike Frysinger
2014-08-20 16:06           ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-20 16:11             ` Joel Sherrill
2014-08-20 16:19               ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-20 16:37                 ` Joel Sherrill
2014-08-21  1:31                 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-08-21  1:25             ` Mike Frysinger
2014-08-21  7:32               ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-21  9:05                 ` Pedro Alves
2014-08-21 13:58                   ` Joel Sherrill
2014-08-21 16:25             ` Richard Henderson

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