[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] Add support for BR2_EXTERNAL

[Ryan Barnett]

"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at gmail.com> wrote on 09/11/2013 12:03:40 
PM:

> > One idea that I have, is for the make file that is genreated for the 
an
> > external output directory, if we could preserve the the value of 
> > BR2_EXTERNAL
> > as follows. I don't think my logic is fully there but there is more of 
a 
> > sudo implementation:
> > 
> > diff --git a/support/scripts/mkmakefile b/support/scripts/mkmakefile
> > --- a/support/scripts/mkmakefile
> > +++ b/support/scripts/mkmakefile
> > @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ makedir := \$(dir \$(call 
lastword,\$(MAKEFILE_LIST)))
> > 
> >  MAKEARGS := -C $1
> >  MAKEARGS += O=\$(if \$(patsubst 
/%,,\$(makedir)),\$(CURDIR)/)\$(patsubst 
> > %/,%,\$(makedir))
> > +MAKEARGS += BR2_EXTERNAL=\$(realpath \$(BR2_EXTERNAL))
> 
> Why realpath? I think we should pass the exact value of BR2_EXTERNAL.

I would agree, like I said when I suggested this I didn't think it all the
way through other than this feature would be very useful.

> Otherwise, I agree that this could be usefull.
> 
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.


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