Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

On Oct 10, 2018, at 10:34 AM, Ralph Lange <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 20:40, Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

If you need that to work I guess it probably can be fixed. Try adding a
vpath pattern for RULES_% and CONFIG_% to configure/RULES_FILE_TYPE,
like this:

vpath CONFIG_% $(USR_VPATH) $(SRC_DIRS)
vpath RULES_% $(USR_VPATH) $(SRC_DIRS)

You could add COMMON_DIR there to allow someone to create a RULES_* file
locally, but it isn't really necessary (neither is USR_VPATH but
everything else uses it so...).

Guess what: that's exactly what I ended up doing.

This is actually pretty cool: In the support module, I am basically taking some of the volatile CONFIG_SITE.local configuration to create a TOP/cfg/CONFIG_mymodule.

This makes sure that all users of mymodule are using the exact same configuration that was used when the support was compiled, without hardcoding, without cloning CONFIG_SITE.local files etc.

Thanks for that hint!!

~Ralph