Re: integrating dtc into the sim/ tree

Joel Brobecker
2014-08-20T09:53:52Z

> 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.

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Joel