[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] freescale-imx: separate variable assignment from Makefile

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 1 21:27:10 UTC 2013


Dear Eric Nelson,

On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:19:09 -0700, Eric Nelson wrote:

> I can do that if I move packages/gstreamer/gst-fsl-plugins/ under
> packages/freescale-imx, but not otherwise.

Are you sure?

See:

$ cat foo.mk 
YOURPACKAGE_VERSION = $(FREESCALE_IMX_VERSION)

FREESCALE_IMX_VERSION = 42

all:
	@echo $(YOURPACKAGE_VERSION)

$ make -f foo.mk
42
$

This shows that the value of FREESCALE_IMX_VERSION can be given *after*
it is used.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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