[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/1] Makefile: add variable print capabilities

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun May 26 19:44:45 UTC 2013


Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Sun, 26 May 2013 21:40:14 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > Hum, is this really useful? What are the use cases? What do other
> > thinks about this?
> 
> I like the overall idea, but only for printing all variables.
> It's then possible to grep the result to find the one variable one is
> interested in.
> 
> I've taken that patch in my tree (dropped the per-variable print, and
> adapted the printvars a bit), and will send a pull request to Peter
> later tonight.

I would suggest to not send patches touching the core infrastructure as
part of a pull request that also has many usually uncontroversial
package changes/updates.

Thomas
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