Currently, it is not possible for a br2-external tree to override a
defconfig bundled in Buildroot, nor is it possible to override one from
a previous br2-external tree in the stack.
However, it is interesting that a latter br2-external tree be able to
override a defconfig:
- the ones bundled in Buildroot are minimalist, and almost always
build a toolchain, so a br2-external tree may want to provide a
"better" defconfig (better, in the sense "suited for the project");
- similarly for a defconfig from a previous br2-external tree.
But we can't do that, as the rules for the defconfigs are generated in
the order the br2-external trees are specified, all after the bundled
defconfigs. Those rule are patten-matching rules, which means that the
first one to match is used, and the following ones are ignored.
Add a new utility macro, 'reverse', inspired from GMSL, that does what
it says: reverse a list of words.
Use that macro to reverse the list of br2-external trees, so that the
latters win over the formers, and even over bundled ones.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently, we only support at most one br2-external tree. Being able
to use more than one br2-external tree can be very useful.
A use-case would be for having a br2-external to contain the basic
packages, basic board defconfigs and board files, provided by one team
responsible for the "board-bringup", while other teams consume that
br2-external as a base, and complements it each with their own set of
packages, defconfigs and extra board files.
Another use-case would be for third-parties to provide their own
Buildroot packaging in a br2-external tree, along-side the archives for
their stuff.
Finally, another use-case is to be able to add FLOSS packages in a
br2-external tree, and proprietary packages in another. This allows
to not touch the Buildroot tree at all, and still be able to get in
compliance by providing only that br2-external tree(s) that contains
FLOSS packages, leaving aside the br2-external tree(s) with the
proprietary bits.
What we do is to treat BR2_EXTERNAL as a colon-separated (space-
separated also work, and we use that internally) list of paths, on which
we iterate to construct:
- the list of all br2-external names, BR2_EXTERNAL_NAMES,
- the per-br2-external tree BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME) variables, which
point each to the actual location of the corresponding tree,
- the list of paths to all the external.mk files, BR2_EXTERNAL_MKS,
- the space-separated list of absolute paths to the external trees,
BR2_EXTERNAL_DIRS.
Once we have all those variables, we replace references to BR2_EXTERNAL
with either one of those.
This cascades into how we display the list of defconfigs, so that it is
easy to see what br2-external tree provides what defconfigs. As
suggested by Arnout, tweak the comment from "User-provided configs" to
"External configs", on the assumption that some br2-external trees could
be provided by vendors, so not necessarily user-provided. Ditto the menu
in Kconfig, changed from "User-provided options" to "External options".
Now, when more than one br2-external tree is used, each gets its own
sub-menu in the "User-provided options" menu. The sub-menu is labelled
with that br2-external tree's name and the sub-menu's first item is a
comment with the path to that br2-external tree.
If there's only one br2-external tree, then there is no sub-menu; there
is a single comment that contains the name and path to the br2-external
tree.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This unique NAME is used to construct a per br2-external tree variable,
BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_PATH, which contains the path to the br2-external
tree.
This variable is available both from Kconfig (set in the Kconfig
snippet) and from the .mk files.
Also, display the NAME and its path as a comment in the menuconfig.
This will ultimately allow us to support multiple br2-external trees at
once, with that NAME (and thus BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)) uniquely defining
which br2-external tree is being used.
The obvious outcome is that BR2_EXTERNAL should now no longer be used to
refer to the files in the br2-external tree; that location is now known
from the BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_PATH variable instead. This means we no
longer need to expose, and must stop from from exposing BR2_EXTERNAL as
a Kconfig variable.
Finally, this also fixes a latent bug in the pkg-generic infra, where we
would so far always refer to BR2_EXTERNAL (even if not set) to filter
the names of packages (to decide whether they are a bootloader, a
toolchain or a simple package).
Note: since the variables in the Makefile and in Kconfig are named the
same, the one we computed early on in the Makefile will be overridden by
the one in .config when we have it. Thus, even though they are set to
the same raw value, the one from .config is quoted and, being included
later in the Makefile, will take precedence, so we just re-include the
generated Makefile fragment a third time before includeing the
br2-external's Makefiles. That's unfortunate, but there is no easy way
around that as we do want the two variables to be named the same in
Makefile and Kconfig (and we can't ask the user to un-quote that variable
himself either), hence this little dirty triple-inclusion trick.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently, we treat the case where we have no br2-external tree
(BR2_EXTERNAL is empty) differently from the case where we do have one
(BR2_EXTERNAL is not empty).
There is now no reason to treat those two cases differently:
- the kconfig snippet is always generated appropriately (i.e. it would
include the br2-external tree if set, or include nothing otherwise);
- we no longer have a dummy br-external tree either.
Also, the Makefile code to handle BR2_EXTERNAL is currently quite
readable if at least a little bit tricky.
However, when we're going to add support for using multiple br2-external
trees simultaneously, this code would need to get much, much more complex.
To keep the Makefile (rather) simple, offload all of the handling of
BR2_EXTERNAL to the recently added br2-external helper script.
However, because of Makefiles idiosyncracies, we can't use a rule to
generate that Makefile fragment.
Instead, we use $(shell ...) to call the helper script, and include the
fragment twice: once before the $(shell ...) so we can grab a previously
defined BR2_EXTERNAL value, a second time to use the one passed on the
command line, if any.
Furthermore, we can't error out (e.g. on non-existent br2-external tree)
directly from the fragment or we'd get that error on subsequent calls,
with no chance to override it even from command line.
Instead, we use a variable in which we store the error, set it to empty
before the second inclusion, so that only the one newly generated, if
any, is taken into account.
Since we know the script will always be called from Makefile context
first, we know validation will occur in Makefile context first. So we
can assume that, if there is an error, it will be detected in Makefile
context. Consequently, if the script is called to generate the kconfig
fragment, validation has already occured, and there should be no error.
So we change the error function to generate Makefile code, so that
errors are caught as explained above.
Lastly, when the value of BR2_EXTERNAL changes, we want to 'forget'
about the previous value of the BR2_EXTERNAL_MK variable, especially in
the case where BR2_EXTERNAL is now set to empty, so that we do not try
to include it later. That's why we first generate empty version of
BR2_EXTERNAL_MK, and then assign it the new value, if any.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Now that we generate a kconfig snippet, we can conditionally include the
BR2_EXTERNAL's Config.in only when BR2_EXTERNAL is supplied by the user,
which means our empty/dummy Config.in is no needed.
As for external.mk, we can also include it only when BR2_EXTERNAL is
supplied by the user, which means our empty/dummy external.mk is no
longer needed.
Ditch both of those files, and:
- only generate actual content in the Kconfig snippet when we actually
do have a BR2_EXTERNAL provided by the user (i.e. BR2_EXTERNAL is not
empty);
- add a variable that contains the path to the external.mk provided by
the user, or empty if none, and include the path set in that variable
(make can 'include' nothing without any problem! ;-) )
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Move the inclusion of br2-external's Config.in to the generated kconfig
snippet.
This will ultimately allow us to use more than one br2-external tree.
Offload the "User-provided options" menu to the generated Kconfig
snippet. We can also move the definition of the Kconfig-version of
BR2_EXTERNAL into this snippet.
We introduce an extra check that was not present in the previous code,
to check that we do have permission on that directory. Prevciously, it
was handled as a side effect of not being able to cd into there, but it
is cleaner to check it expressly.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The BR2_DEPRECATED logic is a lot less useful than the legacy handling,
because the symbols just disappears without warning to the user. For
example, we had a few defconfigs that were using deprecated symbols
(which were not actually used because BR2_DEPRECATED wasn't set) so
these didn't build the expected code anymore.
Also, the idea behind BR2_DEPRECATED is that you can easily revive it
again if there is interest. However, it is relatively easy to revert
the removal of a package as well.
The deprecation is also more effort because it has to be removed twice:
once when deprecating, and once when really removing.
It doesn't make sense to add a legacy entry for BR2_DEPRECATED. Users
who actually used it will get legacy warnings instead.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
By aggregating all the license files into a single big text-only file
means we have no way to use license files that are binary blobs (e.g.
pdf, rtf...).
Just do not generate that big file; if the user still wants it, it is
very easy to create it afterwards.
Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
We used to do a special handling of Linux kernel modules when stripping
target binaries because there's some special precious data in modules
that we must keep for them to properly operate. This is for example true
for stack unwinding data etc.
It turned out there're cases when our existing "strip --strip-unneeded"
doesn't work well. For example this removes .debug_frame section used by
Linux on ARC for stack unwinding, refer to [1] and [2] for more details.
Now Linux kernel may strip modules as a part of "modules_install" target
if INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 is passed in command line. And so we'll do
allowing kernel decide how to strip modules in the best way.
Still note as of today Linux kernel strips modules uniformly for all
arches with "strip" command, so this commit alone doesn't solve
mentioned problem but it opens a possibility to add later a patch to the
kernel which will strip modules for ARC differently - and that's our
plan for mainline kernel.
[1] https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/toolchain/issues/86
[2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-September/172161.html
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When the .config contains invalid configuration *(e.g. two providers for
a same virtual package), it is not possible to run "make distclean"
because the .config file is sourced and packages interpreted in this
case.
Add distclean to the noconfig list, so that we can run it in all cases.
However, this meand that DL_DIR is no longer set, and thus the default
download location never removed. We fix that by always removing the
download location, so that if it is the one configured we still remove
it (no change) and if it is not the one configured, we remove an
non-existing location and leave the user's location intact (no change
either).
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Add the infrastructure for adding generated kconfig snippet in the
menuconfig.
For now, the kconfig snippet is generated empty, the recipe for filling
it in will be introduced in sub-sequent patches.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Some of those directories will be needed even during configuration, like
BUILD_DIR, where we'll store the generated kconfig snippet.
So, move the rule to create them outside the BR2_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG block.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
[Thomas: fixup commit log, as noticed by Romain Naour.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, all configurators depend on generating the out-of-tree
Makefile wrapper.
In an upcoming patch, we'll need to also generate a kconfig fragment,
so it will have to kick in before we run the configurators.
Introduce a new intermediate "prepare-kconfig" rule, so we can
commonalise the dependencies of the configurators. Move the dependency
on the Makefile wrapper to that new intermediate rule.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
[Thomas: mark prepare-kconfig as a phony target.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The code for both cases is exactly the same, and only differs in the
location where defconfig files are looked for.
We use an intermediate macro to generate the corresponding rules,
because directly generating the rules is ugly and needs lots of escaping
and double-dollar-ing for the $(eval ...) and $(foreach ...) calls to
play nicely together.
Furthermore, that will be tremendously useful when we support multiple
br2-external trees.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
[Thomas: move comment outside of the make target, so that it isn't
displayed on stdout when loading a defconfig.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
pkg-utils.mk contains various definitions that are used in the package
infrastructures and packages themselves.
However, those definitions can be useful in other parts of Buildroot,
and are already used in a few places that are not related to the package
infrastructure. Also, $(sep) will be needed early in the Makefile when
we eventually support multiple br2-external trees.
Since this file only contains definitions, we can include it anytime.
So, consider that file to no longer be specific to the package infras:
- move it to support and rename it,
- move a few similar definitions from the main Makefile to that file.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
And export BR2_REPRODUCIBLE for post-build / post-image scripts.
[Peter: Extend commit message,
move export together with our other exports,
add comment explaining why we override local/timezone]
Signed-off-by: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Having a hash of the saved files can be interesting for the recipient to
verify the integrity of the files.
We remove the warning file earlier, to exclude it from the hash
list.
We generate the hash list in a temporary file that will not be matched
by the "find" expression, and once the file is generated, we remain it
to its final name.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: adjust indentation, improve commit log.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Some shells' builtin umask does not print 2 leading 0's for the umask.
Switching to bash is done anyway.
This patch switches to bash before the umask test.
Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt@vandijck-laurijssen.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: don't use the helper.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Note that the uclibc-menuconfig rule was guarded behind
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT, which is wrong since we can build
glibc or musl toolchains too...
This is de facto fixed by moving the help text to the uClibc package.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: don't use the helper.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: don't use the helper.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: don't use a helper.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, all our internal packages provide actions that are prefixed
with their own names. This makes it obvious what package the action
refer to.
However, the help commands are really free-form. This means that
packages (and especially packages from a br2-external tree) may provide
completely arbitrary help text.
As such, all that text can get pretty easily mixed up, and it will be
very difficult to read.
Prefix each package-specific help text with the name of the package it
refers to. This generate a "make help" that looks like:
[...]
Package-specific:
<pkg> - Build and install <pkg> and all its dependencies
<pkg>-source - Only download the source files for <pkg>
<pkg>-extract - Extract <pkg> sources
<pkg>-patch - Apply patches to <pkg>
<pkg>-depends - Build <pkg>'s dependencies
<pkg>-configure - Build <pkg> up to the configure step
<pkg>-build - Build <pkg> up to the build step
<pkg>-graph-depends - Generate a graph of <pkg>'s dependencies
<pkg>-dirclean - Remove <pkg> build directory
<pkg>-reconfigure - Restart the build from the configure step
<pkg>-rebuild - Restart the build from the build step
busybox:
busybox-menuconfig - Run BusyBox menuconfig
busybox-nconfig - Run BusyBox nconfig
barebox:
barebox-menuconfig - Run barebox menuconfig
barebox-savedefconfig - Run barebox savedefconfig
linux:
linux-menuconfig - Run Linux kernel menuconfig
linux-savedefconfig - Run Linux kernel savedefconfig
linux-update-defconfig - Save the Linux configuration to the path specified
by BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE
Documentation:
manual - build manual in all formats
manual-html - build manual in HTML
[...]
(Note: busybox, barebox, linux help will be converted in followup
commits, they are represented here as an example of what this patch
does look like.)
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Add a package-variable to store the package-specific make rules.
Although this variable would be seldom used, we still document it.
However, we make sure the documentation explicitly states that this
variable should not be used (if it needs to be, the submitter of a
package will be told so during reviews).
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Use rsync with '--keep-dirlinks' option to prevent rootfs overlay to
overwrite /usr, /bin, /sbin and /lib links in case BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR
option is enabled.
Steps to reproduce failure:
- enable BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR
- mkdir some_path/rootfs-overlay/lib/firmware/some_file.txt
- enable BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY="some_path/rootfs-overlay"
- run 'make'
- 'target/lib' contains only the files from 'some_path/rootfs-overlay/lib' instead
of the original symlink 'lib -> usr/lib'.
Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
If a locale directory is empty, shell code like "for langdir in
$$dir/*;" will loop once with langdir set to "path/to/dir/*", rather
than not looping at all, which would obviously be the desired
behavior.
Then "grep -qx $${langdir##*/}" ungoes two shell expansions (how?)
that transform the expression from "${langdir##*/}" to "*" to "list of
all files in buildroot root dir". Which is most certainly not what
this command was supposed to do.
If one of those files happens to be an 8GB flash image, grep consumes
all available memory and crashes trying to search it.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@kymetacorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This reverts commit 84c825f8e8.
Turns out that the custom help is not available when the $(O) directory
has not been configure yet (i.e. when there is no .config already
filled).
Rather than trying to work around this limitation with dirty hacks, just
revert this feature. After all, this will not prevent an external.mk
from providing custom help anyway; it's just not gonna be advertised nor
displayed with the main help.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This reverts commit 0a767deba0.
Turns out that the custom help is not available when the $(O) directory
has not been configure yet (i.e. when there is no .config already
filled).
Rather than trying to work around this limitation with dirty hacks, just
revert this feature. After all, this will not prevent an external.mk
from providing custom help anyway; it's just not gonna be advertised nor
displayed with the main help.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The goal is to fix the compilation of perf (from linux) when LD or AR
variables are inherited from the environment.
After the linux upstream commits 5ef7bbb09f7b ("perf tools: Allow to
specify custom linker command") and 3c71ba3f80bb ("perf tools: Really allow
to specify custom CC, AR or LD") CC, AR, and LD variables are not overridden
if they are inherited.
In case of a cross compilation, it results in an inconsistent state: CC is
overridden but not LD and AR.
Linux-patch: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5ef7bbb09f7b
Linux-patch: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c71ba3f80bb
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The patch merges the custom help, introduced in the previous patch, at
the end of our internal help.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When using a br2-external tree, it is possible (as stated in our manual)
to implement whatever arbitrary extra make rules (such as flashing a
board, or extracting the rootfs in an NFS export...). Some of those
extra rules might be exposed to the user as new entry points that the
user can call by itself.
However, there is no way for the br2-external to advertise those new
rules in the help text.
We add the possibility to do so, by adding a new make rule, called
help-custom, advertised in our own help info.
It is up to the br2-external tree to provide whatever help text is
deemed necessary. The format of the help is completely free-form.
Note that we need to provide an empty, dummy help-custom rule, since it
is always advertised (making it .PHONY does not work). Since this rule
is empty, make gently reports that there is "Nothing to be done for
`help-local'", which is pretty well fitting when help-local was not
provided (either because there's no br2-external tree, or when the
br2-external tree does not provide it.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This changes saves a shell call and uses a variable automatically set
by make [1].
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Quick-Reference
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
