From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 23:42:35 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/21 v2] docs/manual: do not override BR2_EXTERNAL In-Reply-To: <4ffb76bcc38fd984ddd6b91f6a0228456b418f1d.1445545973.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <4ffb76bcc38fd984ddd6b91f6a0228456b418f1d.1445545973.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <20151103234235.2c5999af@free-electrons.com> 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 Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:34:01 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Currently, we forcibly override BR2_EXTERNAL when building the manual, > so as to avoid referring to packages therein from the manual. > > However, when generating the lists of packages, we limit ourselves to > scanning for packages in (Buildroot's) TOPDIR and never search in > BR2_EXTERNAL. So, we do not really need to override BR2_EXTERNAL when > generating the manual to achieve the same result. > > Furthermore, we're only looking for packages that are defined in the > sub-menu "Target packages", and never anywhere else, and especially not > in the sub-menu "User-provided options". > > Finally, we're soon to completely eliminate use of BR2_EXTERNAL in > Kconfig altogether, so that would no longer have any impact anyway. > > So, just leave BR2_EXTERNAL alone when generating the manual. > > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > Cc: Peter Korsgaard > Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle > Cc: Samuel Martin > --- > docs/manual/manual.mk | 3 --- > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) Applied, thanks. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com