From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:30:10 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/5] Remove BR2_TOPDIR_PREFIX and BR2_TOPDIR_SUFFIX In-Reply-To: <20090909173535.GA17081@mx.loc> References: <2f7f4e844f89b99bde1ab32524d43ee7a82825a5.1252361088.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <20090909173535.GA17081@mx.loc> Message-ID: <20090910083010.116ab844@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Bernhard, Thanks for your comments! Le Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:35:35 +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer a ?crit : Le Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:35:35 +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer a ?crit : > 1) COND_ARCH_FPU_SUFFIX is _completely_ useless, to say the least. This one is removed by PATCH 5/5. > 2) TOPDIR_PREFIX and TOPDIR_SUFFIX don't hurt and are convenient for > some corner-cases. I'd keep them. As they don't provide any additional value over O=, I'd prefer to keep O=. One of the reason for which Buildroot is too complicated today is because there are multiple ways of achieving the same thing. This multitude of options is confusing for newcomers. > 3) I'd much prefer if we could > rather settle on > TOOL_BUILD_DIR=$(BASE_DIR)/$(TOPDIR_PREFIX)$(ARCH)$(ARCH_FPU_SUFFIX)$(ARCH_MMU_SUFFIX)$(TOPDIR_SUFFIX)_toolchain > BUILD_DIR > =$(BASE_DIR)/$(TOPDIR_PREFIX)$(ARCH)$(ARCH_FPU_SUFFIX)$(ARCH_MMU_SUFFIX)$(TOPDIR_SUFFIX)_build > > so you can conveniently rm -rf powerpc_nofpu_* (for example) See PATCH 5/5, these are completely changed to something else. Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com