v01d commented on issue #2206: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/2206#issuecomment-721272547
Well the configure script already needs to know if it is an out of tree board or not, since it will have to setup things differently. This is fact why using an ouf-of-tree board using an in-tree config fails. I believe it is mostly when trying to create links to board directory, which is driven by the config values. Ideally the configure script would do the right thing with respect to not breaking with such an input config. On the other hand, there's of course some editing to be done for converting an in-tree board to an out-of-tree board: many macro names will change (depending on the board name), header files (and includes to them), Kconfig and Makefile depending on ARCH_BOARD_CUSTOM instead of the board-dependant symbol. All of this could indeed by made by a script, but I would generalize this to a "new-board.sh" script (since copying an in-tree board to create another in-tree board is also relatively common). Of course if you write that you can also deal with modifying the configuration appropiately. But besides that, I feel that configure.sh breaking this way is not desireable either. Anyway, if you prefer to create this script and solve both tasks, I think it is not such a bad idea. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
