Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH v1 2/2] ethtool: build out-of-tree

[Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>]

Am Freitag, den 03.07.2020, 11:08 +0200 schrieb Michael Olbrich:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:13:26AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > Make it easier to work with git source shared between different BSPs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  rules/ethtool.make | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/rules/ethtool.make b/rules/ethtool.make
> > index 649e3e580..d8b957123 100644
> > --- a/rules/ethtool.make
> > +++ b/rules/ethtool.make
> > @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ ETHTOOL		:= ethtool-$(ETHTOOL_VERSION)
> >  ETHTOOL_URL	:= $(call ptx/mirror, KERNEL, ../software/network/ethtool/$(ETHTOOL).$(ETHTOOL_SUFFIX))
> >  ETHTOOL_SOURCE	:= $(SRCDIR)/$(ETHTOOL).$(ETHTOOL_SUFFIX)
> >  ETHTOOL_DIR	:= $(BUILDDIR)/$(ETHTOOL)
> > +ETHTOOL_BUILD_OOT := YES
> 
> I don't want to do this for random packages. I've done it for the kernel
> because it's more complex there. But in this case you can just create a
> rules/post/ethtool-fixup.make and add the line there locally.

While looking into something different I noticed that the pre/post
rules mechanism isn't really documented anywhere, but I don't really
feel confident to type a documentation patch myself. Would be nice if
someone with a solid understanding of this could add some bits to the
ptxdist docs.

Regards
Lucas


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