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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Error with OVERRIDE_SRCDIR in 2016.08
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 11:48:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160905094832.GD5553@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160905093714.GC5553@free.fr>

Jeff, All,

On 2016-09-05 11:37 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> On 2016-09-05 18:39 +1000, Jeff Gray spake thusly:
> > I'm having a problem after upgrading from 2016.05 to 2016.08. I have a
> > number of local applications that I install from BR2_EXTERNAL. This used to
> > work fine in 2016.05, but now I get messages like this when making
> > buildroot (showing one example and using the macro for clarity):
> > $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/package/svp/gpio/gpio.mk:18: *** GPIO_SITE cannot be empty
> > when GPIO_SOURCE is not.  Stop.
> 
> Well, there you missed a little tiny thing from the manual:
> 
>   * LIBFOO_SOURCE may contain the name of the tarball of the package, which
>     Buildroot will use to download the tarball from LIBFOO_SITE. If
>     HOST_LIBFOO_SOURCE is not specified, it defaults to LIBFOO_SOURCE. If
>     none are specified, then the value is assumed to be
>     libfoo-$(LIBFOO_VERSION).tar.gz.
> 
> Notice the part about "If none are specified, then the value is assumed
> to be libfoo-$(LIBFOO_VERSION).tar.gz" ? ;-)
> 
> So in your case, you must define GPIO_SOURCE to empty:
> 
>     GPIO_SOURCE =

In retrospect, you should probably not be using _OVERRIDE_SRCDIR in this
case, but

    GPIO_VERSION = whatever-it-does-not-matter
    GPIO_SITE_METHOD = local
    GPIO_SITE = $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/src/gpio/

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> > I have placed the package files at $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/package/svp/gpio/ and
> > the source files at $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/src/gpio
> > 
> > My gpio.mk file is:
> > --------------
> > GPIO_VERSION = 1.0
> > GPIO_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR = $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/src/gpio/
> > define GPIO_BUILD_CMDS
> > $(MAKE) CC="$(TARGET_CC) $(TARGET_CFLAGS) $(TARGET_LDFLAGS)" -C $(@D)
> > endef
> > define GPIO_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
> > $(INSTALL) -m 0755 -D $(@D)/gpio $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/gpio
> > endef
> > $(eval $(generic-package))
> > ---------------
> > 
> > I have a $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/Config.in that contains lines like this:
> > source "$BR2_EXTERNAL/package/svp/gpio/Config.in"
> > ... and a $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/external.mk that contains this:
> > include $(sort $(wildcard $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/package/svp/*/*.mk))
> > 
> > Can anyone think of a cause for the error message? Has the way this sort of
> > project is configured changed? I looked through the manual and couldn't see
> > anything. I checked that the output/.br-external is the same for both
> > versions.
> 
> > _______________________________________________
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> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-05  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-05  8:39 [Buildroot] Error with OVERRIDE_SRCDIR in 2016.08 Jeff Gray
2016-09-05  9:37 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-09-05  9:48   ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2016-09-06  3:37     ` Jeff Gray

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