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

[Nishanth Menon]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

Hmmm... Are folks ok if I create a softlink?
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Regards,
Nishanth Menon