[OLPC-devel] OLPC buildsystem cleanups

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Aug 22 01:03:33 EDT 2006


Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Carl-Daniel U. Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> [060821 19:16]:
> 
>>-	payload /tmp/olpcpayload.elf
>>+	payload ../../../../../../../../deploy/olpc-payload
>> end
> 
> 
> Hm. I dont know. The above path is pretty unreadable.
> Or at least really ugly.
> 
> Can we have it parse environment variables instead? 
> $(TOPDIR) / $(PAYLOADDIR) ?
> 
> 

using an environment variable instead of a hardcoded path has been on my 
list for a long time. Rather than all this path finagling, we might want 
to consider doing that.

thanks

ron



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