From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:50:10 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1 of 5 v2] Makefile.package.in: add utility functions find*clauses and notfirstword In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20111117205010.60a99ee3@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:41:48 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire a ?crit : > Functions finddirclauses and findfileclauses help in building a find > command that skips a set of directories and performs operations on a > set of files. This pattern can for example be used to keep certain > files or directories from being stripped, or to remove certain files > from a package installation. I must say I am not a big fan of this. Those macros are horribly complicated to understand and they make the code really cryptic. I think I would really prefer to see the implementation of these "do not strip this file/directory" option to be done without those cryptic macros. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com