[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/3] Makefile: add tainting support

Angelo Compagnucci angelo at amarulasolutions.com
Wed Sep 5 22:22:48 UTC 2018


Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:01 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 23:45:47 +0200, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
>
>> > So: do we care about host packages for "tainting" ? If we do care, how
>> > do we handle this ?
>>
>> I think we can demand the decision to when we will have a host package
>> that needs tainting support.
>>
>> Moreover, I don't think the demand for host packages that needs
>> tainting support will be high in the future.
>
> Then we need to make that explicit:
>
> ifeq ($$($(2)_TYPE),host)
> ifneq ($$($(2)_TAINTS),)
> $$(error "Host package $(1) has $(2)_TAINTS set: not supported)
> endif
> endif
>
> of course, please check that this really works as expected.

Done!

>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com


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