From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] virtual-packages: the case for multiple providers selected
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:36:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140514093651.38207fb3@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXf6LUKpS7cg53fAZeu8zma22pZw7Tpw0t25cFdxdijtSrzww@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
On Wed, 14 May 2014 09:34:43 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> Yes indeed. It's not nice, but it's possible.
But makes the BR2_EXTERNAL usage really ugly :/
> By the way, it also means that whenever a new choice is added, every
> BR2_EXTERNAL in the world needs to be updated in order to work
> correctly.
>
> This could be solved if it were possible to merge a set of dummy such
> files with the actual BR2_EXTERNAL. Or by using different env
> variables BR2_EXTERNAL_FOR_CHOICE_EGL, BR2_EXTERNAL_FOR_CHOICE_OPENVG,
> ... where these variables are set to either BR2_EXTERNAL or
> dummy-external, depending on the existence of the corresponding file.
> These variables would be set by buildroot, before calling menuconfig.
> But as you can see, it becomes very ugly.
Yes it does :/
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-14 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-13 18:09 [Buildroot] virtual-packages: the case for multiple providers selected Yann E. MORIN
2014-05-13 20:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-05-13 20:12 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-05-13 20:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-05-14 7:21 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-05-14 7:30 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-05-14 7:34 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-05-14 7:36 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2014-05-13 21:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] infra/pkg-virtual: validate only one provider provides an implementation Yann E. MORIN
2014-05-13 22:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-05-13 22:14 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-05-14 8:10 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-05-14 17:35 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-05-14 8:11 ` [Buildroot] virtual-packages: the case for multiple providers selected Arnout Vandecappelle
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