Re: [leaf-devel] glitch in buildtool

[davidMbrooke <dmb...@nt...>]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 10:40 +0200, Erich Titl wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> It appears that the environment variables from buildtool.cfg are not
> passed to the makefile for the buildclean and srcclean operations. Could
> someone with insight in these modules please comment?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Erich


Hi Erich,

I have noticed the same behaviour. Some of the makefiles automatically
derive the directory name from the source .tar.gz contents but that does
not work for buildclean / srcclean so they have to save off the
directory name to a file (called "DIRNAME") in order to use the name
later, when the environment variables are not set.

Would a similar approach work for you? Look at the first few lines of
e.g. repo/nfs-utils/buildtool.mk as an example.

Obviously it would be possible to change the buildtool source code to
implement different behaviour but I think I looked at doing that and it
was not trivial. Feel free to create a Trac ticket to log the request
for an enhancement.

dMb