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Thomas De Schampheleire
5bd9ed6fe6 trivial: fix typo 'an host'
In English, unlike in French, the 'h' in 'host' is pronounced, meaning that
the article should be 'a' instead of 'an'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-07-24 22:29:54 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
f6fc9abd10 pkg-virtual: simplify definition of FOO_VERSION to 'virtual'
As mentioned in the e-mail accompanying the introduction of the pkg-virtual
infrastructure [1], the definition of FOO_VERSION is 'strange'.

After the cleanup of single/double dollar signs in inner-generic-package,
the special construction in pkg-virtual is no longer needed and can be
simplified.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-April/093670.html
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-06-14 19:10:08 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
54456cc698 infra: consistently use double dollar signs inside inner-xxx-targets
The inner-xxx-targets in the buildroot package infrastructures are
evaluated using $(eval) which causes variable references to be a bit
different than in regular make code. As we want most references to be
expanded only at the time of the $(eval) we should not use standard
references $(VAR) but rather use double dollar signs $$(VAR). This includes
function references like $(call), $(subst), etc. The only exception is the
reference to pkgdir/pkgname and numbered variables, which are parameters to
the inner block: $(1), $(2), etc.

This patch introduces consistent usage of double-dollar signs throughout the
different inner-xxx-targets blocks.

In some cases, this would potentially cause circular references, in
particular when the value of HOST_FOO_VAR would be obtained from the
corresponding FOO_VAR if HOST_FOO_VAR is not defined. In these cases, a test
is added to check for a host package (the only case where such constructions
are relevant; these are not circular).

Benefits of these changes are:
- behavior of variables is now again as expected. For example, setting
  $(2)_VERSION = virtual in pkg-virtual.mk will effectively work, while
  originally it would cause very odd results.

- The output of 'make printvars' is now much more useful. This target shows
  the value of all variables, and the expression that led to that value.
  However, if the expression was coming from an inner-xxx-targets block, and
  was using single dollar signs, it would show in printvars as
    VAR = value (value)
  while if double dollar signs are used, it would effectively look like
    VAR = value (actual expression)
  as is intended.
  This improvement is for example effective for FOO_DL_VERSION, FOO_RAWNAME,
  FOO_SITE_METHOD and FOO_MAKE.

The correctness of this patch has been verified using 'make printvars',
'make manual' and 'make legal-info' before and after applying this patch,
and comparing the output.

Insight-provided-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-06-14 19:09:54 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
455a354c96 virtual-package: fake a version string for virtual packages
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-04-05 19:21:15 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
7439824412 packages: add infrastructure for virtual packages
The virtual-package infrastructure allows to easily define a
virtual package in a single line:

    $ cat package/some-virtual-package/some-virtual-package.mk
    $(eval $(virtual-package))

And that's all. :-)

Thanks to Éric for his work on the manual, that prompted the
idea for this virtual-package infrastructure! ;-)

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Zick <minimod@morethan.org>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-04-05 19:20:59 +02:00