Re: [PATCH] travis.yml: Use the libfdt from the distro instead of the submodule

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 19/1/23 14:55, Thomas Huth wrote:
> No need to compile-test third party submodules over and over again if
> we can simply use the pre-build library from the distribution instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>   .travis.yml | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index fb3baabca9..e24c99fdb9 100644
> --- a/.travis.yml
> +++ b/.travis.yml
> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ jobs:
>             - libbrlapi-dev
>             - libcacard-dev
>             - libcap-ng-dev
> +          - libfdt-dev
>             - libgcrypt20-dev
>             - libgnutls28-dev
>             - libgtk-3-dev

Could we remove cloning the submodule in the 'enabled' case now?
See ./configure:

1518  case "$fdt" in
1519    auto | enabled | internal)
1520       # Simpler to always update submodule, even if not needed.
1521       git_submodules="${git_submodules} dtc"
1522       ;;
1523  esac