[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] core/pkg-cmake: provide our own platform description

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

Arnout, All,

On 2017-03-01 09:35 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 01-03-17 09:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:58:31 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > 
> >>  Since you don't do any processing on the file, you could just use
> >>
> >> 		-DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH="$$(TOPDIR)/support/misc" \
> > 
> > I think the idea is that since the Buildroot.cmake platform files gets
> > referenced by the toolchainfile.cmake, then Buildroot.cmake anyway
> > needs to be installed in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/share/buildroot, so we can
> > just as well point CMake to this place.
> > 
> >> and avoid copying the file around. Of course, in that case, support/cmake is
> >> probably a better place to put the file :-)
> > 
> > No: copying the file is needed, otherwise our toolchainfile.cmake file
> > no longer works for people using it outside of Buildroot.
> 
>  Good point. I still think it should be in staging rather than host, but for
> sure it's more important to keep them together.

Why would you want it in staging? When we build our own internal cmake,
the moduels it installs are so installed in host, not staging. They are
build-description files, not target files.

Ergo, they should be in host, not staging.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

>  Therefore:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
> 
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
> 
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