[Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch package-infrastructure

[Lionel Landwerlin <llandwerlin@gmail.com>]

Le mardi 15 d?cembre 2009 ? 22:45 +0100, Sven Neumann a ?crit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:30 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 
> > This patchset :
> > 
> >  * implements a new infrastructure to support all type of packages,
> >    not only packages relying on the autotools build system. Through
> >    the new GENTARGETS macro, implemented in
> >    package/Makefile.package.in, we will be able to write simpler .mk
> >    files and be able to factorize the common parts of the different
> >    .mk files. This infrastructure support building both host and
> >    target packages.
> > 
> >  * rebases the existing autotools infrastructure on top of the new
> >    generic infrastructure. This rebasing has no impact on the existing
> >    .mk files for autotools packages. With this rebasing, the autotools
> >    infrastructure gains the ability to build host packages.
> > 
> >  * simplifies most (if not all) .mk files of autotools-based packages
> >    that required an host version to be compiled (xutil_makedepend,
> >    xproto_xproto, pixman, m4, mtd-utils, lzo, libusb, libgtk2, gob2,
> >    expat, dbus-glib, shared-mime-info, libxml2, freetype, fontconfig,
> >    directfb, dbus, atk, pango, libtool, libglib2, cairo, automake,
> >    pkg-config)
> > 
> >  * bumps the version of autoconf to 2.65 and finally fixes the
> >    host-autoconf build problem when sh is symlinked to dash.
> > 
> >  * converts a few packages to the generic infrastructure (zlib, olsr,
> >    udev)
> > 
> >  * updates and extends the documentation to cover the new
> >    infrastructures with examples and reference information
> 
> I only had a quick look at your patches, but I think I can already can
> say that this looks wonderful. With these changes, it becomes a lot
> simpler to create and to maintain buildroot packages. Thanks for your
> work on this.
> 
> 
> Sven

Thanks again for your work Thomas.

I hope thoses patchs will be integrated soon, so we can update most of
the packages for this architecture.

-- 
Lionel Landwerlin