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From: Pieter Smith <pieter@boesman.nl>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [v3, 1/4] barebox: prepare for secondary config build
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 08:50:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160302075049.GA10481@smipidev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56D620F2.3090605@mind.be>

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 12:08:34AM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 02/29/16 08:47, Pieter Smith wrote:
[snip]
> >  
> > Thanks for the suggestion. It is shaping up nicely. There is one aspect that I
> > would appreciate input on: To all but completely eliminate duplication in the
> > makefiles for the two packages, I am wrapping all the current functionality in
> > boot/barebox/barebox.mk in a parameterized barebox-package function. E.g.:
> > 
> >   define barebox-package
> >   $(1)_VERSION = $$(call qstrip,$$(BR2_TARGET_BAREBOX_VERSION))
> >   ...
> >   $$(eval $$(kconfig-package))
> >   endef
> >   $(eval $(call barebox-package,BAREBOX))
> > 
> > And the whole of boot/barebox/barebox-2/barebox-2.mk becomes:
> > 
> >   $(eval $(call barebox-package,BAREBOX_2))
> 
>  No, I don't think we want this, because it hides a lot of what barebox-2 is
> doing internally. It's OK and actually better (in my opinion) if barebox-2.mk is
> just a long list like:

Pity. This quite elegantly solved my concerns. barebox and barebox-2 differ
only in menuconfig and barebox environment configuration space. The rest should
always be identical.

> BAREBOX_2_VERSION = $(BAREBOX_VERSION)
> BAREBOX_2_SITE = $(BAREBOX_SITE)

This shouldn't change much in future, so I can still do the variable copying if
you prefer.

> BAREBOX_2_BUILD_CMDS = $(BAREBOX_BUILD_CMDS)

This will not work. Both the BAREBOX_BUILD_CMDS and BAREBOX_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS
need parameterization. I can solve this with with:
1. A scaled down version of the above barebox-package function to generate the
   boilerplate, or
2. Parameterizable functions and duplicated boilerplate.

IMHO reducing duplication always improves clarity and maintenance, so I would
go for option 1.

What has your preference?

> ...
> $(eval $(kconfig-package))
> 
> 
>  Regards,
>  Arnout

[snip]

I would like to:
1. Ensure that all improvements to barebox propagate to barebox-2 in future.
2. Avoid having something error-prone to resolve the above. IMHO using a review
   process to keep two pieces of code in sync is quite error-prone and an
   unnecessary cognitive burden on developers.

- Pieter

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-02  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-20 22:43 [Buildroot] [v3, 0/4] Supporting building a second Barebox config Pieter Smith
2016-01-20 22:43 ` [Buildroot] [v3, 1/4] barebox: prepare for secondary config build Pieter Smith
2016-02-22 11:03   ` Yegor Yefremov
2016-02-26 23:17   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-02-28  8:12     ` Pieter Smith
2016-02-29  7:47       ` Pieter Smith
2016-03-01 23:08         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-02  7:50           ` Pieter Smith [this message]
2016-03-02 18:12             ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-02 21:32               ` Pieter Smith
2016-03-05 13:16                 ` Pieter Smith
2016-03-06 21:16                   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-07 18:31                     ` Pieter Smith
2016-02-29  7:57     ` Pieter Smith
2016-01-20 22:43 ` [Buildroot] [v3, 2/4] barebox: adds option to build secondary config Pieter Smith
2016-02-22 11:03   ` Yegor Yefremov
2016-02-26 23:26   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-02-29  8:01     ` Pieter Smith
2016-01-20 22:43 ` [Buildroot] [v3, 3/4] barebox: user selection of build output images Pieter Smith
2016-02-22 11:03   ` Yegor Yefremov
2016-02-26 23:43   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-02-29  8:38     ` Pieter Smith
2016-03-01 23:14       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-02  7:54         ` Pieter Smith
2016-03-02 18:18           ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-02 21:40             ` Pieter Smith
2016-03-06 23:03               ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-01-20 22:43 ` [Buildroot] [v3, 4/4] beaglebone: adds barebox bootloader defconfig Pieter Smith
2016-02-22 11:04   ` Yegor Yefremov
2016-02-26 23:47   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-02-26 23:48     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-02-29  8:44     ` Pieter Smith
2016-03-01 23:15       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-02  7:55         ` Pieter Smith
2016-02-16 11:55 ` [Buildroot] [v3, 0/4] Supporting building a second Barebox config Yegor Yefremov
2016-02-16 18:55   ` Pieter Smith
2016-02-16 21:27     ` Yegor Yefremov
2016-02-21 17:25       ` Pieter Smith

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