From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:20:06 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 0/4] Add a BR2_EXTERNAL mechanism In-Reply-To: <20131124202025.GB3575@free.fr> References: <1379185433-8770-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <20131124202025.GB3575@free.fr> Message-ID: <20131126142006.64b5528c@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Yann E. MORIN, On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:20:25 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > On 2013-09-14 21:03 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > > Here is the second version of the BR2_EXTERNAL patch series. > > I was wondering what the plan with BR2_EXTERNAL was, in the end? > > From my recollection of the last DevDay, I understood we would go with > it, with a few changes: > - add a generated, sub-makefile in $(O) with the definition of > BR2_EXTERNAL, so that it is not needed to repeat it on the command > line of future invocations of 'make' > - enforce the same directory layout, package/ board/ and configs/ > > Right? > > If so, Thomas, since your the original submitter: do you have pending > changes to that effect, or are you waiting for someone to kick in and > continue the work on this patch series? I don't have pending changes right now. But since Ryan is in Toulouse this week (and we've been doing some Buildroot hacking together), I think we'll try to spend one evening on the BR2_EXTERNAL stuff and come up with an updated proposal that takes into account the ELCE discussions. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com