Re: [meta-networking] [PATCH] traceroute: filter-out patches dir

[Joe MacDonald <joe@deserted.net>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1563 bytes --]

[Re: [oe] [meta-networking] [PATCH] traceroute: filter-out patches dir] On 14.02.13 (Thu 08:40) Otavio Salvador wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 01/22/2014 10:21 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The $(subdirs) contains all the dirs under the ${B}, and this one:
> >>>
> >>> do_unpack[cleandirs] = "${S}/patches"
> >>>
> >>> will create a "patches" dir, then there will be compile errors, filter
> >>> out the patches will fix the problem.
> >>>
> >>> Note: poky doesn't have this problem since it separates the ${S} and
> >>> ${B}
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> Couldn't we change it for OE-Core as well? So we avoid having to patch
> >> the build system.
> >>
> >
> > I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what do you mean, this patch didn't
> > change the build system, it changed the Make.rules.
> 
> 
> To be sincere I didn't understand my comment as well ...  don't recall
> what I thought... I'd say to ignore it.

Oh.  Heh.  I thought you were proposing a change to oe-core's build
approach that would mean we didn't need to have a patch here to
traceroute to separate $(B) and $(S).  At least that's what I got from
it based on the commit log.  I'm still a bit confused about what's so
different about traceroute's build system that it needs special handling
...

-- 
-Joe MacDonald.
:wq

[-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 205 bytes --]