[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] infra: introduce github helper function

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 13/11/13 14:15, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> Regarding the defconfigs: Arnout suggested adding the $(call github)
> there as well. However, I'm not very fond of that: if you run 'make
> savedefconfig' later it will not be preserved.

 Why would it not be preserved?

 The only real disadvantage is that it looks very ugly:

BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL_LOCATION="$(call github,linux-sunxi,linux-sunxi,274a66a7bfcbaabb88d63e4eba161965383cc416)/linux-sunxi-274a66a7bfcbaabb88d63e4eba161965383cc416.tar.gz"


 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Best regards,
> Thomas


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