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diff --git a/package/cmake/cmake.mk b/package/cmake/cmake.mk index 95c73c036b..7a80c1bfef 100644 --- a/package/cmake/cmake.mk +++ b/package/cmake/cmake.mk @@ -10,6 +10,18 @@ CMAKE_SITE = https://cmake.org/files/v$(CMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR) CMAKE_LICENSE = BSD-3c CMAKE_LICENSE_FILES = Copyright.txt +# CMake is a particular package: +# * CMake can be built using the generic infrastructure or the cmake one. +# Since Buildroot has no requirement regarding the host system cmake +# program presence, it uses the generic infrastructure to build the +# host-cmake package, then the (target-)cmake package can be built +# using the cmake infrastructure; +# * CMake bundles its dependencies within its sources. This is the +# reason why the host-cmake package has no dependencies:, whereas +# the (target-)cmake package has a lot of dependencies, using only +# the system-wide libraries instead of rebuilding and statically +# linking with the ones bundled into the CMake sources. + CMAKE_DEPENDENCIES = zlib jsoncpp libcurl libarchive expat bzip2 xz CMAKE_CONF_OPTS = \ |
