[Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 2] generic packages: rename FOO_CONFIGURE_OPTS into FOO_CONFIGURE_OPT

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 08:40:26 UTC 2014


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Yann E. MORIN,
>
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:27:10 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>
>> > We could add a simple check to warn users of _OPT, but not more than that.
>>
>> OK, I'm siding with you guys. OK for the renaming.
>>
>> But then we should add a check that the old variable gets used, and
>> _error out_ in such case. If we just warn, the warning will be lost
>> amongst all the other messages, nad will bbe missed; and suddenly,
>> br2-external packages fails to build, or build in an unexpected
>> configuration.
>>
>> I agree with you that we should just check if the old variable is set,
>> but we should not try to correct the situation.
>
> I fully agree with this: we should error out if the old variable is
> used, so that things are clearly noticed by users.

Ok, great.
I'm working on this...



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