From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:13:24 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [pull request] Buildroot cleanup, v2 In-Reply-To: References: <1253135266-26880-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <20090923003854.134a1993@surf> Message-ID: <20090923011324.20577fe7@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:56:32 -0400, "H Hartley Sweeten" a ?crit : > One thing I did notice. > > You default BR2_DL_DIR to $(BASE_DIR)/dl a better default might be > $(TOPDIR)/dl. This would make the default work for multiple > make O= without having to create the /dl symlink > or export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR. True. It always bothered me as well. Care to prepare a patch and submit it ? > > That's definitely on my TODO-list. But don't hesitate to step-up > > with a patch, since I'm very busy these days and don't know when > > I'll be able to work on this again (next week ?). > > I'll just wait for you to reach it on your TODO-list ;-) Ooh, come on :-) > Having a common package removal would be great! Removing a single > package from the filesystem can be a real pain... It is basically unsupported these days. Some packages work more or less, but on overall it just doesn't work. > zlib.mk isn't even the worse one. That one at least looks like it > could be converted to the a Makefile.autotools.in target. Some of the > older *.mk files are a real mess... Yes, they are. They are part of the work, but it will take quite some time to implement the infrastructure and then convert the packages. Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com