[Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain package: set version as 'virtual' instead of 'undefined'

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> schreef:
>Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
>
>On Tue, 06 May 2014 12:51:19 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
>> This patch causes the log messages to change from:
>> 
>> >>> toolchain-external undefined Downloading
>> >>> toolchain-external undefined Extracting
>> ...
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> >>> toolchain-external virtual Downloading
>> >>> toolchain-external virtual Extracting
>> ...
>> 
>> and similar for 'toolchain' and 'toolchain-buildroot', simply because it
>> looks nicer.
>> At the same time, the directory names also become toolchain-virtual,
>> toolchain-buildroot-virtual, toolchain-external-virtual instead of the
>> corresponding 'undefined' variants.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>
>Shouldn't we instead migrate these to use the virtual package
>infrastructure, and make this infrastructure define this magic 'virtual'
>version?

I tried using virtual-package in toolchain/toolchain/toolchain.mk, but TOOLCHAIN_VERSION becomes empty, while HOST_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION is virtual.

Yann, Thomas: any ideas?

Thanks,
Thomas