On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 13 September 2013 06:01, Jakob Bornecrantz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If I'm reading this correctly this will cause the build to fail if > > you don't give it the disable flag if xatracker is missing? > > I'm on the fence if we want this, is this a problem you have > > run into? > > Correct, defaults to enabled and will fail if the dependencies are not > present. If required I could add an "auto" option alongside the > explicit on and off options. > > As a best practise our metadistro (Yocto Project) avoids > auto-detection because it leads to undeterministic builds: one day the > build order changes and if you forgot an explicit dependency, the > compilation changes. > Ah you are right that does make sense, thank you for explaining, I will commit this patch later, and it is Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <[email protected]> Cheers, Jakob.
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