[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: don't rely on linux-tools being sorted alphabetically

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 17 07:37:00 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 17:08:59 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> Your position on Markus' (non-)issue?
> 
> Do we keep the code as-is, or do we "fix" it so that it is not
> ambiguous?
> 
> I've checked, and make uses strcmp(3) internally, and strcmp() does not
> use locales at all; it just compares chars.

I don't have a very strong opinion on this. To me, it would be fine to
have linux-tools.mk and then the per-tool files called
linux-tool-<foo>.mk.in or something like that.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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