[U-Boot] [PATCH] Makefile: Include vendor common library in include search path

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 5 November 2015 at 00:32, Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com> wrote:
> On 11/05/2015 01:28 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>> When the vendor common libraries exists, then board should be able to
>> reference headers located there, rather than having to do weird logic
>> such as '#include "../common/xyz.h"'.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
>> ---
>>
>>  Makefile                | 1 +
>>  board/ti/am57xx/board.c | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Arrgh.. Apologies on the diffstat messup, but anyways, the patch does
> apply, and will wait to repost in case of further comments.
>
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 3c21f8ddf9e9..75d5ea802dfd 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -620,6 +620,7 @@ c_flags := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) $(cpp_flags)
>>  # U-Boot objects....order is important (i.e. start must be first)
>>
>>  HAVE_VENDOR_COMMON_LIB = $(if $(wildcard $(srctree)/board/$(VENDOR)/common/Makefile),y,n)
>> +UBOOTINCLUDE += $(if $(HAVE_VENDOR_COMMON_LIB:y=1), -I$(srctree)/board/$(VENDOR)/common)
>>
>>  libs-y += lib/
>>  libs-$(HAVE_VENDOR_COMMON_LIB) += board/$(VENDOR)/common/
>>
>

I suppose this is OK. But it might be hard to figure out where a
header file is coming from. I wonder if we could make it support:

#include <board-common/...>

and it would find the file?

Regards,
Simon