From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] Makefile: export BR2_CONFIG_FILE, pointing to our .config
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:07:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EC1A1B.5080804@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301081351.38832.yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
On 08/01/13 13:51, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Arnout,, All,
>
> On Tuesday 08 January 2013 07:50:51 Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>> On 07/01/13 22:52, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> [--SNIP--]
>>> +# Scripts in support/ may need to parse out .config, so give
>>> +# them easy access
>>> +export BR2_CONFIG_FILE=$(CONFIG_DIR)/.config.
>>
>> Convention is that BR2_* is set by Kconfig. I kind of like that, it
>> helps us developers to understand a variable's meaning.
>
> I am afraid CONFIG_FILE as is could clash with some packages.
> Maybe DOT_CONFIG instead? I'll use that.
DOT_CONFIG is equally likely to conflict.
(None of our own files use CONFIG_FILE, cfr. 'git grep -w CONFIG_FILE').
Regards,
Arnout
[snip]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-08 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-07 21:52 [Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch yem-misc-fixes Yann E. MORIN
2013-01-07 21:52 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] Makefile: export BR2_CONFIG_FILE, pointing to our .config Yann E. MORIN
2013-01-07 22:10 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-01-08 6:50 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-08 12:51 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-01-08 13:07 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2013-01-08 13:46 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-01-08 14:27 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-13 20:45 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-01-13 21:34 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-01-07 21:52 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] support/dependencies: use globally-exported BR2_CONFIG_FILE Yann E. MORIN
2013-01-07 21:52 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] toolchain/crostool-ng: use globally-exported CONFIG_FILE Yann E. MORIN
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