libglib2 copies unwanted things to target

Hi All,

Have added the libglib2 package to my target and it seems to copy over a load of unwanted things into the target filesystem. In particular it copies a load of help files to target/usr/share/gtk-doc

The package uses the autotools framework which I'm not expert on so not sure the best way to tackle this. Should there just be a post target install step to go round and delete the unwanted files? I guess better would be to change the glib2 install target to one that does not copy over the help but I'm not familiar with the package so not sure if that is possible.

What does anyone suggest?

Thanks
Will

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Hi William,

There are typically two approaches in Buildroot packages :

* Either the .mk file does not use the "make install" target the package makefile to install the package to the target/ directory and manually installs only what's needed for runtime usage of the package software ;

* Or the .mk file does use the "make install" target of the package makefile to install the package to the target/ directory and then cleans up the files that are not really needed for runtime usage of the package.

In the case of the libglib2 package, manually doing the package installation to the target is maybe too complicated, so the second solution is probably the easiest one. It would be something like:

define LIBGLIB2_REMOVE_DOCUMENTATION
rm -rf $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/gtk-doc
endef

LIBGLIB2_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += LIBGLIB2_REMOVE_DOCUMENTATION

Cheers,

Thomas

Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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