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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Masahiro,

On 9 November 2015 at 09:37, Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com> wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 10:03 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> 2015-11-09 1:38 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>:
>>> On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 09:56:18AM -0600, menon.nishanth at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Conceptually fine with me.  Do we really need a config option for it
>>>>> tho?
>>>>
>>>> I was following the lines of CONFIG_CREATE_ARCH_SYMLINK here. Is there
>>>> some reason why you'd not want it so?
>>>
>>> Masahiro?
>>>
>>
>> Is this an improvement?
>>
>>
>> I am unhappy because I was hoping
>> we could stop creating symbolic links during building
>> in a long run.

But how? I don't see that it is possible if we want to have a sensible
prefix for each include.

>
> OK. what do we do?
> option 1:
> #include "..common/xyz.h"
> 141 something usage in board files do this for now..
>
> option 2:
> -I...common (auto generated - original patch)
> #include "xyz.h"
> we dont like that since it does not tell us that xyz.h is a
> board-common header.
>
> option 3:
> #include <board-common/xyz.h>
>
> this needs a soft link which we dont like either.

Well, I like it :-)

>
> are there any other ways to do this?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nishanth Menon
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Regards,
Simon