[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] core/pkg-kconfig: run the kconfig fixups after exiting configurators

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2015-06-12 23:36 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sat,  6 Jun 2015 13:54:25 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > After we exit the configurators, we need to re-run the kconfig fixups to
> > ensure the user is not able to override them in the configurators.
> > 
> > Currently, we schedule that "for later", by removing the corresponding
> > stamp file, so make will run the fixups "later".
> > 
> > This means the user has access to the un-fixed .config file, which he
> > might decide to copy and use as a reference (not too bad, since we'd run
> > the fixups anyway; but not clean either).
> 
> Until now, OK.
> 
> > Furthermore, we'll need to have the .config file properly fixed-up
> > without requiring the full dependency chain up to the original
> > user-supplied (def)config, so we won't be able to rely on the stamp file
> > in the dependency list, so we'll need to run the fixups when exiting the
> > configurators anyway.
> 
> But here, I'm lost.

Right, this has nothing to do in that commit log.

> >  # Configuration editors (menuconfig, ...)
> > +#
> > +# Apply the kconfig fixups right after exiting the configurators, so
> > +# that the user always sees a .config file that is clean wrt. our
> > +# requirements.
> > +#
> > +# Because commands in $(1)_FIXUP_KCONFIG are probably using $(@D), we
> > +# fake it for the configurators (otherwise it is set to just '.', i.e.
> > +# the current directory where make is run, which happens to be in
> > +# $(TOPDIR), because the target of the rule is not an actual file, so
> > +# does not have any path component).
> > +#
> > +$$(addprefix $(1)-,$$($(2)_KCONFIG_EDITORS)): @D=$$($(2)_DIR)
> >  $$(addprefix $(1)-,$$($(2)_KCONFIG_EDITORS)): $$($(2)_DIR)/.stamp_kconfig_fixup_done
> >  	$$($(2)_MAKE_ENV) $$(MAKE) -C $$($(2)_DIR) \
> >  		$$($(2)_KCONFIG_OPTS) $$(subst $(1)-,,$$@)
> >  	rm -f $$($(2)_DIR)/.stamp_{kconfig_fixup_done,configured,built}
> >  	rm -f $$($(2)_DIR)/.stamp_{target,staging,images}_installed
> > +	$$(call $(1)_FIXUP_KCONFIG)
> 
> I find a bit sad that we don't manage to use make dependencies to
> schedule the kconfig-fixup -> configurator -> kconfig-fixup thing
> logic, and that we have to manually recall $(1)_FIXUP_CONFIG.

And I just noticed that it should be named $(2)_FIXUP_CONFIG, not
$(1)_FIXUP_CONFIG. Will fix before I respin.

> I've put
> a bit of thought into it, but I indeed don't see a simple way of
> achieving that in a different way that the one you're proposing.

Well, I had it working at one point with tricky makefile dependencies,
that I did not fully understand myself, so I prefered to ditch them and
use simpler code that is easily understandable.

> The
> hack on @D is particularly tricky.

s/tricky/ugly/  ;-)

Yes you're right, hence the reason I put a big comment about it.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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