[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Include makefiles from GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR

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

All,

On 2019-11-07 19:09 +0100, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> On 2019-11-06 23:31 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> > On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 17:37:48 +0100
> > "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> [--SNIP--]
> > > So, I am afraid that these overrides are a poor excuse for not wanting to
> > > do actual VCS work.
> > Well, you are the one who introduced BR2_EXTERNAL in the first place!
> 
> Ahem... git show a4239f7fd10 ;-)
> 
> I did introduce support for multi br2-external, though.
> 
> Anyway, this patch, as on IRC by J?r?my, has a designe flaw: since the

*as discussed on IRC with ... a design flaw...

> override files are included too early, they hcamge the way pkgdir is

* change

> computed, and this breaks completely.
> 
> This can be corrected, though, and it might even not be too complex to
> do.
> 
> But if we're going to do the override stuff, I think we must think it
> thouroughly, and not use an half-baked solution.
> 
> If at all, I'd favour looking at the aternate solution that was floated
> around during the last devdays: postpone evaluation of the infras to
> after all the packages hav actually been scanned. This would even allow
> overriding the type of a package (e.g. autotools-package instead of
> meson-package, in case the version was changed to use another
> buildsystem).

... and thus we could drop the check that a package is not redefined,
and so a package could be redefined in a br2-external tree, and that
would not need any new override mechanism at all, presumably.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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