PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:= is what you are looking for
packages/hostapd/Makefile uses it, so have a look in that file please
Quoting Fabian Hugelshofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I plan to create a package for oprofile which relies on libbfd. A
> package for libbfd already exists. It compiles a static library and
> installs the header files with InstallDev but has no actual package
> description as nothing has to be installed on the router.
>
> How is the best way to make it compile? 'feeds/scripts install libbfd'
> can not link it ("WARNING: No feed for package 'libbfd' found, maybe
> it's already part of the standard packages?") and creating the link
> manually does not help either because it does not appear in menuconfig
> afterwards.
>
> To compile it I added proper package descriptions such that it can be
> selected in menuconfig. Is there another way? If not I believe the
> package description should be included in the Makefile.
>
> Assume we would add the package description. I would create the oprofile
> package and make it depend on libbfd. The library and oprofile would
> both compile. Nice. But during installation ipkg would complain about a
> missing libbfd package, which does not exist, as it only creates a
> static library which does not need to be copied to the box.
>
> How do you think is the cleanest way to deal with these issues?
>
> Fabian
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