Re: Patch to allow creation of headers from custom kernel source

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

Andy, All,

On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:33:26 Andy Gibbs wrote:
> Following on from my previous question, I have hacked (rather badly, 
> probably) an extra option into crosstool-ng to allow the use of a custom 
> Linux archive file which contains the whole source rather than just the 
> headers.  The extra setting allows the user to set whether the archive *is* 
> the whole source or not, and then the build scripts will then create the 
> headers from this as appropriate.
> 
> I've attached the patch file in case this is of interest.  Hopefully it is 
> fairly easy to follow (I've mainly just copied bits from elsewhere).  I'm 
> afraid its probably not the best quality however, since I'm not so sure 
> about how the menuconfig system works.  I've tested it here, and it works 
> fine for me.

Bad code duplication, bad! ;-)

Seriously, I'm really uncomfortable with that code duplication. I think
there is a nice way to handle that with the existing code and a few more
tests... I'll poke at that later tonight...

> The same source archive can now be used both for crosstool  
> *and* buildroot, which was my aim.

Hoho! I see what you wanted that for, now.



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