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author | Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> | 2013-11-12 09:47:56 +0100 |
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committer | Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> | 2013-11-12 23:20:37 +0100 |
commit | 003d38da3a716b0a19e980fb69a6cd55b353f4f3 (patch) | |
tree | c1b8fe950358a4016041dee875cc9ad745dadf1c /docs/download.html | |
parent | 7a7ec2dd3758a9832471db2ccf0f8bf7b08ad6dc (diff) | |
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legal info: fix saving of host package licenses
Due to some tricky make behavior, the license texts of host packages that
did not provide an explicit HOST_FOO_LICENSE_FILES definition was not saved.
The problem is that it is not straightforward to use a variable
defined/updated inside an evaluated block as input to a foreach statement.
If you try to use $(FOO) then only the original value of FOO is used for
foreach, any update inside the block is ignored. However, if you use
$$(FOO), the entire contents of FOO (typically a list of items) is passed
as one item to foreach, thus causing just one iteration instead of several.
>From Arnout Vandecapelle's explanation:
Any variable referenced with a single $ inside the inner-generic-package
macro is expanded before the resulting contents are eval'ed. Therefore, it
is not possible to refer to variables defined by the inner-generic-package
macro from within a single-$ function call.
To fix the problem, one should defer the evaluation of the entire block
using double dollar signs.
Additionally, a few empty lines have been added to the legal-info-foo block
for clarity.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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