[Buildroot] [RFC] Request for comment for branch for-2012.05/misc-cleanups

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On Friday 09 March 2012 15:18:07 Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Le Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:07:29 -0300,
> > Alexandre Pereira da Silva <aletes.xgr at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> >> I think the pkg-* makefiles could be moved from the packages directory
> >> as they are used by the kernel and bootloaders as well.
> >> Maybe move them to the support directory.
> >
> > Yeah, I was also wondering about this. I don't know if support/ is the
> > right place, or if we need yet another top-level directory such as
> > include/ or mk/ or whatever. What are others opinion?
> 
> I don't think support/ is the right place, but I'm not against moving
> these files elsewhere.
> Not sure about the best name though...

 Many projects have a top-level 'mk' or 'make' directory for the common
make infrastructure.

 For me, however, support/mk sounds good as well.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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