plugin first steps

[Sebastian Huber]

Chris Johns wrote:
> Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> It seems like you are working to extract information
>> from the RTEMS Application Makefiles and generate
>> some configuration information for Eclipse.  Chris
>> has been working to eliminate them in favor of autoconf
>> for the external examples.
>>
> 
> I have not followed in detail where they are getting the info from but
> Makefiles would concern me.

With from Makefiles I mean run make with a special Makefile and parse
the output of the make run.

> 
> The approach taken in the autoconf examples is to use the BSP
> configuration files.
> 
> Does Eclipse have support for autotools ?

Yes, there exists a CDT based Autotools plug-in, but the managed make
system from CDT is for our purpose much better.

> 
>> Couldn't the same information be directly generated
>> by RTEMS?
> 
> It is held in RTEMS already in the BSP config files. This file is
> installed when the BSP is installed.

Yes, but it is hard to extract information from these scattered files.

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