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From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] Makefile: use absolute paths to BR2_EXTERNAL
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:18:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E69503.60101@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140126145342.4c5ccc4e@skate>

On 26/01/14 14:53, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Yann E. MORIN,
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:59:34 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>
>> +is interpreted relative to the main Buildroot source directory, not
>> +the Buildroot output directory. Using relative paths can lead to various
>> +broken setups, and thus is highly discouraged in favour of using
>> +absolute paths.
>
> In this patch and in patch 3/3, I don't quite agree with the strong
> suggestion to use absolute paths. I personally find the usage of
> absolute paths ugly, and prefer to have in the manual an explanation on
> how the paths are interpreted, so that the users can understand how to
> properly use either relative paths or absolute paths as they prefer.
>
> To me, a tool that strongly suggests to use absolute paths is broken.

+1

  I have never used anything except relative paths for O= (and I use O= 
all the time :-).

  Regards,
  Arnout


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-27 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-22 20:59 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] BR2_EXTERNAL, O: misc fixes and docs Yann E. MORIN
2014-01-22 20:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] Makefile: use absolute paths to BR2_EXTERNAL Yann E. MORIN
2014-01-22 21:22   ` Samuel Martin
2014-01-23  8:48   ` Jeremy Rosen
2014-01-26 13:53   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-01-27 17:18     ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2014-02-02 10:19       ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-02 10:16     ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-01-27 17:26   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-02 10:23     ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-02 11:01       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-02 11:09         ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-01-22 20:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] manual: $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/{Config.in, external.mk} are mandatory Yann E. MORIN
2014-01-22 21:18   ` Samuel Martin
2014-01-22 20:59 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] manual: add explanations on limitation about using O= Yann E. MORIN
2014-01-22 21:18   ` Samuel Martin

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