please send it to oe-devel ml if you intend to propose it for meta-oe

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 5:54 AM Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.bell...@bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Fabio,
>
> On 24/01/2022 16:18:34-0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 6:57 AM Christian Eggers <cegg...@arri.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Fabio,
> > >
> > > from my experience, custom build systems (including "bare" Makefiles)
> > > are often hard to integrate/maintain for distributors.
> >
> > rtc-tools is a straightforward package and I have sent the Makefile
> > patch upstream.
> >
> > Not sure why it can be hard to integrate or maintain it.
> >
> > > What about using CMake instead?
> >
> > I can do that if needed, but it is up to the rtc-tools maintainer, 
> > Alexandre.
> >
> > Alexandre, any advice?
> >
>
> My plan is to probably go for the Makefile. I don't think it will cause
> any issue and this doesn't care about portability to other systems as
> the tool is Linux only.

thats fine, well written makefiles can do cross compilation just fine.
>
> I'm just checking with buildroot whether they prefer having all the
> binaries installed with a single target or if rtc-range has to be
> separated out.
>
> rtc-range is supposed to be a debugging tool. I'd also separate it in a
> different package.
>
> Note that there is a daemon that should be coming up (well when I will
> have time) with the goal of monitoring both battery status and clock
> drift.
>
> --
> Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com
>
> 
>
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