[Buildroot] [PATCH 02/24 v2] system: sysvinit only selects busybox-show-others if busybox is enabled

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Jul 4 16:49:17 UTC 2016


Romain, All,

On 2016-07-03 09:53 +0200, Romain Naour spake thusly:
> Le 22/06/2016 à 21:07, Yann E. MORIN a écrit :
> > BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS is a bit special. When Busybox is
> > enabled, it is a Busybox option. When Busybox is not enabled, it is a
> > stand-alone option, forcibly enabled.
> > 
> > So we can safely 'select' it without ensuring (via a 'depends on' or
> > another 'select') that Busybox is enabled.
> > 
> > However, the name of this option does not express the fact that it is
> > safe to select it without checking Busybox, which can lead to a bit of
> > time-consuming head-scratching.
> > 
> > To avoid future puzzlement from an unsuspecting observer, consider this
> > to be a Busybox option, and only select it when Busybox is enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> > Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> 
> Not related to your patch but should we do the same change for tovid and systemd
> packages which select BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS ?

Indeed, but in retrospect, I think I should drop this patch
altogether...

This option is really special, so I think a better solution would
probably to add a big fat comment above that option that basically
states that:

    # This option is not an option of Busybox, it canbe selected even
    # if Busybox is not enabled.

I'll do that in a follow-up series.

Thanks for the review! ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> Best regards,
> Romain
> 
> > 
> > ---
> > Changes v1 -> v2:
> >   - only select if busybox is enabled  (Thomas)
> > 
> > ---
> > Hopefully, this will avoid people to go hunting like I did, and loose a
> > few precious minutes of hair-pulling... ;-]
> > ---
> >  system/Config.in | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/system/Config.in b/system/Config.in
> > index 9441467..2d20230 100644
> > --- a/system/Config.in
> > +++ b/system/Config.in
> > @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ config BR2_INIT_BUSYBOX
> >  
> >  config BR2_INIT_SYSV
> >  	bool "systemV"
> > -	select BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS # sysvinit
> > +	select BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS if BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX # sysvinit
> >  	select BR2_PACKAGE_INITSCRIPTS
> >  	select BR2_PACKAGE_SYSVINIT
> >  
> > 
> 

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