[Buildroot] [PATCH v5] toolchain: allow side by side sysroot directories
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jan 19 22:14:39 UTC 2016
Dear Vicente Olivert Riera,
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:49:38 +0000, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
> Currently our toolchain infrastructure assumes that every toolchain has
> nested sysroot directories. However that's not true for all of them. The
> Codescape toolchains from Imagination Technologies use a side by side
> sysroot structure, for instance.
>
> This patch allows our toolchain infrastructure to detect what kind of
> sysroot structure we have (nested or side by side) and performs the
> appropriate actions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera at imgtec.com>
> Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes v4 -> v5:
> - Add an echo to display what is being symlinked. (Suggested by Romain)
> Changes v1 -> v4:
> - This patch didn't exist before. It has been introduced in v4.
I've applied after updating the comment above the function to explain
what's going on. It's a pity we can't have inline comments in those big
shell blocks. Part of my mid-term goal is to move some of this crap to
helper shell scripts, which would simplify the syntax and allow the
addition of comments everywhere.
Thanks!
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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