On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 11:34:56AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Hi Neil, > > You are creating a new directory buildtools/ which depends on mk/ I don't know what this means. Every part of the dpdk that builds code depends on the infrastructure in mk/ (save for the scripts below)
> We also have some scripts used in the build process: > scripts/auto-config-h.sh > scripts/depdirs-rule.sh > scripts/gen-build-mk.sh > scripts/gen-config-h.sh > scripts/relpath.sh > I think we should move these scripts somewhere else, probably in mk. > So we would have only 2 directories for the build system and we would > keep the scripts directory only for dev tools. > > If we want to make a step further, we can rename scripts/ to devtools/ > and tools/ to usertools/. > > Opinions? > I suppose if you like, sure, though I would caution against moving them to mk/ as no one really expects executable scripts in the infrastructure makefile area. If you want to move the buildtool scripts elsewhere I would suggest buildtools/scripts. Either way though, this movement seems to fall outside of the purview of the purpose of the changeset associated with this email thread. Neil
