Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] utils/getdeveloperlib.py: fix regexp used to find package infra

[Julien Olivain via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

On 14/09/2026 09:52, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot wrote:
> There's recently been autobuilder failures on
> toolchain-external-bootlin, but I wasn't getting notified in the daily
> autobuilder e-mail for those failures, which sounded odd as DEVELOPERS
> contains:
> 
> N:      Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> [...]
> F:      toolchain/
> 
> And indeed, testing:
> 
> $ ./utils/get-developers -p toolchain-external-bootlin
> 
> returned nothing.
> 
> Turns out that the regexp FIND_INFRA_IN_PATCH and FIND_INFRA_IN_MK
> used to find the package infrastructure, and ultimately decide if a
> given .mk file contains a package, was a bit too strict:
> 
> "^\+\$\(eval \$\((host-)?([^-]*)-package\)\)$"
> 
> This would only allow packages named <something>-package or
> host-<something>-package, but the <something> should not contain any
> dash ("-"). So this works fine for cmake-package,
> host-autotools-package, but not for toolchain-external-package where
> <something> is toolchain-external and it contains a dash.
> 
> We fix this by relaxing the regexp a bit and allowing any character in
> <something>. Consider the rest of the regexp that expects $(eval
> $(<host>-<something>-package)), it seems highly unlikely to match
> anything else but the line we're interested in.
> 
> With this fix:
> 
> $ ./utils/get-developers -p toolchain-external-bootlin
> Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
> Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
> Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> 
> This issue has existed since the toolchain-external-package
> infrastructure had been added.
> 
> Fixes: 1c99d70e5210f9d7b475736e0360ed63d16584f2 ("toolchain-external: 
> introduce toolchain-external-package")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>

Applied to master, thanks.
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