[Buildroot] [git commit] pkg-infra: introduce errors for legacy API

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Peter Korsgaard,

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:06:40 -0800, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=ebcfa987df4095a7805ff124ab648fb607c89215
> branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
> 
> As discussed in the BR developer days, we want to be more strict about API
> changes in buildroot. I.e., we want to make it less likely that a user's
> customizations break down after upgrading buildroot.
> 
> A first step is to make sure that the user is warned about API changes.
> This patch introduces Makefile.legacy and Config.in.legacy, which will
> issue clear error messages for such situations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk>

This doesn't really work well with randpackageconfig, and therefore
breaks the autobuilders badly.

For example, randpackageconfig can enable BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT_STATIC,
because it matches BR2_PACKAGE_<foo>, this will select BR2_LEGACY,
which will abort the build.

Should it be fixed just in the autobuilders scripts, or do we consider
the fact that "make randpackageconfig" generates un-buildable
configuration is a bug by itself?

Thomas
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