2016-06-07 08:08, Neil Horman: > 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)
Yes, I'm just doing a summary of the build system. > > 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. Yes that's what I thought first, but as stated above, buildtools depends on mk, and mk/ depends on these scripts. > Either way though, this movement seems to fall outside of the purview of the > purpose of the changeset associated with this email thread. Yes, just discussing for possible more changes.
