[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] Add CONF_ENABLE and CONF_PKG_ENABLE helper functions

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

Hello Arnout,

Le Sat, 12 May 2012 00:29:15 +0200,
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> a ?crit :

>   I agree that it looks too cryptic.  Certainly with the eval and call things.
> And we should indeed try to keep the package .mk files as intuitive as
> possible.
> 
>   However, my purpose was not to save a few lines, but rather to make sure
> that package contributors do things the correct way.

I agree it would have been nice, but there are many things that we
verify during review, and this could be one of the things to verify
when a new package is added, or updates to existing packages are made.

>   I was probably just trying too hard to support all possible use cases.
> What about adding something like:
> 
> SYSTEMD_AUTO_CONF_ENABLE_DEPS += acl
> 
> which would get expanded to the whole ifeq thing in the AUTOTARGETS call?
> This only works if the buildroot package name is the same as the
> --enable/--disable option, but that already catches many cases.

I am still personally not a big fan of this. What's happening is really
too magic.

Thomas
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