From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] core: enhance printvars for variables with newlines
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:50:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180403165012.0d0e173a@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180403143151.13372-1-chemobejk@gmail.com>
Hello,
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 17:31:51 +0300, Stefan Becker wrote:
> If the variable content has newlines in it then the currently dumped
> content can't be fed again to GNU make. Add the option DEFINE_VARS which
> causes the variables to be dumped using
>
> define VAR
> ... line 1 ...
> ... line 2 ...
> ...
> endef
>
> Updated the manual accordingly.
Just curious, what is the use case for feeding the printvars output
back into GNU Make ?
Thanks!
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-03 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-03 14:31 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] core: enhance printvars for variables with newlines Stefan Becker
2018-04-03 14:50 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-04-03 15:15 ` Stefan Becker
2018-04-03 16:21 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-04-03 16:37 ` Stefan Becker
2018-04-03 17:01 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-04-05 6:20 ` Stefan Becker
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