Bug 5966

Summary:	bison unnecessarily required as build dependency
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Tilman Keskinöz <arved>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	buildroot
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Tilman Keskinöz 2013-02-25 15:29:15 UTC

support/dependencies.sh requires that bison is installed on the host system.

This is unnecessary for packages that use bison, because buildroot supports to depend on a host-bison.

The only other usage is in the kconfig build, but kconfig builds successfully without bison before dependencies.sh is run. 

Suggested solution:
Remove bison from support/dependencies.sh

Comment 1 Thomas Petazzoni 2013-02-25 15:54:06 UTC

I agree, but I think bison on the host might be needed for the internal toolchain backend, while building binutils/gcc/gdb. We would need to check that, and add the needed dependency on host-bison where needed.

Comment 2 Gustavo Zacarias 2013-03-27 10:34:56 UTC

Done by Thomas during the patchwork day #1.