TINYOS_ROOT_DIR_ADDITIONAL and TOSMake_include_make_platform

[raidoz]

I'm trying to add some extras under an external tinyos-other tree(listed in TINYOS_ROOT_DIR_ADDITIONAL) and it does not seem to work, the original extras under the main tinyos tree become invisible.

Specifically, I'm trying to add a programmer type for AVR platforms, so I added:
tinyos-other/support/make/avr/newporgrammer.extra

Which I think should complement or override the stuff in:
tinyos-main/support/make/avr/

The avr stuff gets pulled in by the main target with $(call TOSMake_include_make_platform,avr)

Now when trying to install, the install/reinstall targets no longer work, the build system does not find them anymore. The newprogrammer is now listed as a valid extra, but install/reinstall and the programmers in the main tinyos are no longer listed (by make iris help for example).

A similar tinyos-other approach works just fine for adding *.target and *.platform files and even *.extra files, but not when adding things under a directory that is included with TOSMake_include_make_platform.

I can get around this by for example putting my stuff in tinyos-other/support/make/avrplus, adding an empty avrplus.rules and including $(call TOSMake_include_make_platform,avrplus), but this requires me to also override existing AVR platforms to include that directory. I would like the programmer to be available for the default iris platform as well by simply including my tinyos-other in TINYOS_ROOT_DIR_ADDITIONAL.

So am I doing something that shouldn't work on principle, doing something wrong or is there a bug?

[cire831]

did you make any progress on this issue?

[raidoz]

I didn't, but if you agree that what I was trying to do should work and is the desired behavior, then I will dig a bit deeper into the make stuff.

[cire831]

what you are trying to do is reasonable.