[Buildroot] [PATCH 11 of 15] pkg-generic: introduce helper function to check for a deprecated variable

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Oct 4 17:13:08 UTC 2014


Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:32:48 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

>  ################################################################################
> +# check-deprecated-variable -- throw an error on deprecated variables
> +#
> +# argument 1 is the deprecated variable
> +# argument 2 is the new variable to use
> +#
> +# example:
> +#   $(eval $(call check-deprecated-variable,FOO_MAKE_OPT,FOO_MAKE_OPTS))
> +################################################################################
> +define check-deprecated-variable
> +ifneq ($$(origin $(1)),undefined)
> +$$(error Package error: use $(2) instead of $(1). Please fix your .mk file)
> +endif
> +endef

This helper should rather go in pkg-utils.mk. See my comment on PATCH
12 for explanations.

Thomas
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