Targets with overrides

[John Dallaway]

Hi Gary

One of the reasons we have avoided this technique in public sources is that 
the implementation is not fully integrated with the rest of the CDL 
library. For example, the values you provide for options you override do 
not become the CDL default values. The configtool therefore indicates that 
the options have been changed and allows you to restore the default value 
which would effectively change the target and confuse the "run tests" 
capability of the tool. Without improved integration, I would prefer to 
avoid the use of this technique in the public repository.

John Dallaway
eCosCentric Limited

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Thomas
Date: Thursday 02 Oct 2003 13:44
Subject: Targets with overrides

> I'd like to add some targets to ecos.db which contain explicit CDL
> overrides (e.g. to force a particular board configuration).  I know
> in the past we avoided doing this because the public tools might not
> handle it, but it's now many years on and the tools are all new enough.
>
> Is there any dissension to my making such a change?