[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package: add jimtcl support

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Mon, 2 May 2011 07:41:15 +0200
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> wrote:

> > That should work today - E.G. the git support creates a tarball
> > which will be reused next time you build or can be put on a mirror
> > server.
> The idea is to use the tree directly and not everytime create a
> tarball

That's something I plan to add globally at the package infrastructure
level. We need it for many other packages as well, for example the
bootloaders or the kernel. So there's infrastructure work to be done to
implement this, but I'd prefer to wait this work to be done rather than
cluttering each independent package with this kind of specific handling.

My idea is that users could write a "local.mk" file, in which they
could do:

JIMTCL_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR = /my/own/location

and Buildroot will use /my/own/location as the sources for JIMTCL.

Best regards,

Thomas
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