[csw-maintainers] GAR: BUILD_ARGS when custom build scripts

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 09.06.2012 um 18:54 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>> 2012/6/9 Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>
>>>> When you say that you're using a custom build and you wish to pass
>>>> specific arguments to all or some of the specific scripts, what do you
>>>> mean by 'a script'?
>>> 
>>> I mean 'target'. See autogen's recipe where the build is split in 4
>>> targets, 3 of them having additional PATH set.
>> 
>> Right, so you need custom build-* targets to do that.
>> 
>> BUILD_SCRIPTS += foo
>> 
>> build-foo:
>>    (cd $(WORKSRC); PATH=... gmake ...)
>>    @$(MAKECOOKIE)
> 
> This is what I've done. But there is the BUILD_ARGS variable which can
> add extra arguments to the default build. My question is related to
> this: how to add custom arguments to custom builds?
> 
> BTW, I use the following construct:
> 
> build-foo:
> 	PATH="/opt/csw/gnu:$$PATH" $(MAKE) -C $(WORKSRC)
> 	$(MAKECOOKIE)
> 
> which, for me, is a little bit more readable, but that is a question of
> taste...

There is no such automatic build in right now, but I see this is useful and
have opened a ticket for it so it is not forgotten:
  https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/ticket/72


Best regards

  -- Dago