[Buildroot] [RFC] Package infrastructure: make variables or make targets ?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

Le Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:40:56 +0100,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> a écrit :

> I've already started prototyping a solution, but I'm facing a choice
> on which I'd like to have the community opinion. Usually, I don't like
> talking without showing patches, but as this choice is fairly
> intrusive in the design of the new infrastructure, I don't want to
> start the wrong way.

I've pushed a set of commits to
http://git.buildroot.net/~tpetazzoni/git/buildroot/log/?h=package-infrastructure
which shows the current status of my work. Warning: it is currently in
an ugly state: documentation not updated, the generic package
infrastructure still contains some autotools-specific stuff, the
autotools infrastructure ported over the generic infrastructure does
not work yet.

But it still allows you to see how the .mk files look like for three
examples : icu, zlib and olsr (randomly choosen).

Please do not pull this branch anywhere except for experimentations, as
I will rebase it heavily.

Sincerly,

Thomas
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