[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] Remove the "project" feature
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Sep 8 07:06:12 UTC 2009
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
Thomas> The "project" feature was designed to allow to several projects
Thomas> to be built inside the same Buildroot source tree and allowing
Thomas> the toolchain and non-configurable packages to be shared
Thomas> between the different projects on the same architecture. While
Thomas> being interesting in theory, this feature adds a level of
Thomas> complexity to Buildroot, both from an user perspective and from
Thomas> a developer perspective, while one of the main Buildroot
Thomas> strengh is to be simple. Moreover, this feature is only
Thomas> seldomly used by our users.
I agree, I also don't like the complexity it added.
Thomas> - Don't make world depends on target-host-info. This target was
Thomas> defined by project/project.mk to customize /etc/issue,
Thomas> /etc/hostname and create /etc/br-version depending on the
Thomas> project definitions. We can of course imagine re-adding such a
Thomas> feature later.
Stuff like /etc/br-version is handy atleast. I think it would be nice to
keep all 3, as it is part of the current Kconfig interface, it makes it
easy to do minimal customization when you use the generic rootfs
skeleton and it adds only little complexity.
Thomas> * package/Makefile.autotools.in
Thomas> - Replace PROJECT_BUILD_DIR by BUILD_DIR for the location of the
Thomas> configure cache
Thomas> - Move the INSTALL_TARGET and HOOK_POST_INSTALL stamps to the same
Thomas> directory as the other stamps (i.e, in the package directory).
Yeah!
Thomas> * target/u-boot/Makefile.in
Thomas> - Replace PROJECT_BUILD_DIR by BUILD_DIR
Thomas> - Remove $(PROJECT) from the U-Boot target binary name
Thomas> - Remove the insertion in the configuration of the project name as
Thomas> the hostname
Thomas> - The u-boot-autoscript target now generates
Thomas> $(U_BOOT_AUTOSCRIPT).img instead of
Thomas> $(U_BOOT_AUTOSCRIPT).$(PROJECT)
The u-boot config stuff is imho way too overengineered, and could use
some cleanup/simplification.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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