From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:33:35 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v8 01/11] host-qemu: new package In-Reply-To: <50621F05.1070708@mind.be> References: <1348593508-14254-1-git-send-email-francois.perrad@gadz.org> <50621F05.1070708@mind.be> Message-ID: <20120926093335.5397b207@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Arnout Vandecappelle, On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:15:49 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > This looks very much like a $(host-autotools-package). Even if the > configure is not a proper autoconf script and barfs on all the unknown > options that buildroot adds, you can still override the > CONFIGURE_CMDS. But I expect that just setting HOST_QEMU_CONF_OPT > will be enough. Still, the package doesn't use the autotools, so we shouldn't use the autotools-package infrastructure for it. While it may work at current time t, it may easily break at time t+1 if we make changes to the autotools-package infrastructure that are relevant for autotools packages, but that break the subtle assumptions that non-autotools packages are making in their use of the autotools-package infrastructure. So no, let's make things explicit: Qemu doesn't not use the autotools, they have a custom configure script, custom Makefiles, so we have to use the generic-package infrastructure here. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com