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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1 of 5 v2] Makefile.package.in: add utility functions find*clauses and notfirstword
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:50:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111117205010.60a99ee3@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6579582d02dd802adca.1321557990@devws108>

Le Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:41:48 +0100,
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com> a ?crit :

> Functions finddirclauses and findfileclauses help in building a find
> command that skips a set of directories and performs operations on a
> set of files. This pattern can for example be used to keep certain
> files or directories from being stripped, or to remove certain files
> from a package installation.

I must say I am not a big fan of this. Those macros are horribly
complicated to understand and they make the code really cryptic. I
think I would really prefer to see the implementation of these "do not
strip this file/directory" option to be done without those cryptic
macros.

Regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17 19:41 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 5 v2] Add find utility functions / exclude files from strip / reduce python Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-17 19:41 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1 of 5 v2] Makefile.package.in: add utility functions find*clauses and notfirstword Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-17 19:50   ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2011-11-17 20:19     ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-18  0:10   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-18  9:41     ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-19  7:13   ` Cam Hutchison
2011-11-21  8:42     ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-17 19:41 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 5 v2] stripping: use findfileclauses utility function Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-18  0:06   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-18  1:46   ` Cam Hutchison
2011-11-18  6:21     ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-17 19:41 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3 of 5 v2] build: add option to exclude executables/dirs from being stripped Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-17 19:42 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4 of 5 v2] python config: move configuration into menu Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-17 19:42 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5 of 5 v2] python: allow reduced installation Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-17 19:55   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-18  0:24     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-18  7:59     ` Thomas De Schampheleire

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