[Buildroot] Buildroot eclipse integration: doesn't work with custom BR2_HOST_DIR

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 30/06/14 15:45, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Normally, BR2_HOST_DIR is $(BASE_DIR)/host which is
> <buildroot>/output/host. However, the user can set a custom
> BR2_HOST_DIR in the buildroot configuration.
> 
> If you do that, and select the registration of the toolchain against
> eclipse, you get:
> 
> ./support/scripts/eclipse-register-toolchain `readlink -f output`
> i686-pc-linux-gnu- "i586"
> Your project directory does not look like a Buildroot output
> make: *** [target-finalize] Error 1
> 
> This is because eclipse-register-toolchain script does:
> 
> if test ! -d ${project_directory}/host ; then
>     echo "Your project directory does not look like a Buildroot output"
>     exit 1
> fi
> 
> (where project_directory is the first parameter) and thus assumes that
> host is under <buildroot>/output which is not correct if you set
> BR2_HOST_DIR explicitly to a custom value.
> 
> I'm not sure about the internals of the Buildroot Eclipse plugin, so
> it is unclear to me which freedom we have regarding changing the
> helper script.

 Seems to me the solution is trivial: create a symlink host -> $(HOST_DIR), like
we do for staging -> $(STAGING_DIR).

 Regards,
 Arnout


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