[PATCH] README: Add dependencies per Platform

[Jeffrey Hugo]

On 1/31/2018 10:55 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> On 31/01/18 17:45, Deb McLemore wrote:
>> I'm not sure the history on why the distro specifics were not identified before, but the
>>
>> thought was to add what we know today and what is useful and maintain going forward.
>>
>> If arch is not deemed helpful, that can be removed.  I have insight for ppc64le, I'll need other
>>
>> input on how best to format for coverage on the previous arch's/distro's.
> 
> I'd rather have some distro package info than none for sure.  Let's go
> with what we have here and I'll try and figure out if there any
> differences for other arches and I'll update the README as and when.
> 

Works for me.  For Ubuntu on ARM64 (specifically 16.04.3 on QDF2400), 
the default list we have in the tree today works for me.  I don't know 
if that can be pared down, but I don't need to add anything to it.

> Colin
> 
>>
>>
>> On 01/31/2018 11:39 AM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
>>> On 1/31/2018 8:36 AM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
>>>> On 1/31/2018 6:51 AM, Deb McLemore wrote:
>>>>> Add platform distro dependency specifics (per architecture).
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Deb McLemore <debmc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    README | 13 ++++++++++++-
>>>>>    1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/README b/README
>>>>> index 521bd86..1c5951c 100644
>>>>> --- a/README
>>>>> +++ b/README
>>>>> @@ -6,7 +6,18 @@ Quick Start Guide
>>>>>    1) Dependencies:
>>>>> -    autoconf, automake, libglib2.0-dev, libtool, libpcre3-dev, libjson0-dev | libjson-c-dev, flex, bison, dkms, libfdt-dev
>>>>> +Ubuntu Distro x86_64
>>>>> +    autoconf automake libglib2.0-dev libtool libpcre3-dev libjson0-dev
>>>>> +    libjson-c-dev flex bison dkms libfdt-dev
>>>>> +
>>>>> +Ubuntu Distro ppc64el
>>>>> +    autoconf automake libglib2.0-dev libtool libpcre3-dev libjson-c-dev
>>>>> +    flex bison dkms libfdt-dev device-tree-compiler
>>>>> +
>>>>> +RHEL Distro ppc64el
>>>>> +    autoconf automake kernel-devel libtool flex flex-devel bison dkms
>>>>> +    libfdt libfdt-devel dtc json-c json-c-devel pcre-devel pcre2 pcre2-devel
>>>>> +    pcre2-utf16 pcre2-utf32 glib2 glib2-devel pciutils pciutils-devel zlib-devel
>>>>>    2) To build and install (only if building from source)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What about ARM64?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe a better question, what is the value in delineating by arch?
>>>
>>> Ok, I see powerPC needs the device tree compiler.  Why is that only needed for powerPC, and what is the argument against listing that for Ubuntu on all arches?
>>>
>>> I see the value of specifying a tailored list by distro, but adding an arch to the matrix seems like a massive amount of effort to generate and maintain the various variants, for little gain.
>>>
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>>
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