[Buildroot] [PATCH v5 06/13] configs: add autobuild toolchain defconfigs

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Apr 6 20:39:37 UTC 2017



On 06-04-17 21:55, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 20:18:46 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle
> (Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> 
>> Note: I choose to name them xxx_defconfig and put them under to configs
>> directory so they can be used directly as a quick way to set up a build
>> with an external toolchain. However, neither test-pkg nor autobuild-run
>> will use them as _defconfig, so we could just as well call them *.config
>> and put them under e.g. support/autobuild-toolchains. Let me know what
>> you think.
> 
> It's not a fully clear-cut opinion, but I believe I have a preference
> for having those in support/<something>/ rather than as official
> defconfigs.
> 
> I don't think it makes much sense to advertise them as defconfigs.
> Those base configurations are very specialized, some of them use
> completely stupid toolchain configurations (ARM no thread, really?)
> that only exist for the sake of testing various combinations of
> toolchain features. So making those visible to random users along with
> real defconfigs for boards doesn't seem like a good idea.
> 
> Plus it avoids the need to support defconfigs in subfolders (even
> though I guess you went through great lengths to workaround make
> stupidity about how patterns without slashes are handled), and the big
> question of your last RFC patch on how to display them in
> "list-defconfigs".

 Yeah, it's only at the last minute that I realized that there was no need for
them to be defconfigs. So at that point I just reworded the commit message and
pressed send :-)

 Regards,
 Arnout

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