This is very useful, thank you mirko.

Should I include depends on things like libc?  I notice there is a
variable called PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS.  I've seen it used for host-side
compilation of the same package.  A package I'm working on also
needs bison and flex and build-time dependencies.  Is it appropriate
to put those in PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS?

-Alan

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:56:20PM +0200, Mirko Vogt wrote:
> Hey Alan,
> 
> let's imagine we have a Makefile/port/package called <foo>, and the
> following within the respective Makefile:
> 
> DEPENDS:=bar # package <foo> will be only selectable, if <bar> is
> selected
> 
> DEPENDS:=+bar # <foo> will be always selectable and - if selected - is
> going to select <bar> automatically as dependency
> 
> Greetings
> 
> mirko
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:05 -0600, Alan Post wrote:
> > coi ro do,
> > 
> > Last month I purchased a Ben NanoNote and began working on porting
> > packages and understanding how OpenWrt works.
> > 
> > I have commit access to qi-hardware's repository, but this
> > repository mostly serves to track OpenWrt's backfire and trunk
> > branches.
> > 
> > I have a question about packages and dependencies in OpenWrt, based
> > on what I have observed.
> > 
> > I see that a package may list what it depends on.  I don't think
> > this dependency is checked if you enable a package in make
> > menuconfig.  If you enable a package but don't enable the
> > dependencies, the package will be skipped.
> > 
> > Is this true?  I still feel like I'm getting myself oriented in
> > using OpenWrt, so please excuse what may be a basic question.=20
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > -Alan
> 
> 
> 
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