Re: PACKAGES_PATH in !include path in Dsc files

[Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>]

On 16 October 2018 at 10:40, Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com> wrote:
> +edk2-platforms maintainers in To list
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> Thank you Liming for replying.
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> Our entire code is in edk2-platforms
> (https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms) which is denoted by
> PACKAGES_PATH.
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> The PACKAGES_PATH directory can be anywhere in WORKSPACE depending on the
> sync directory defined by user.
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> i.e. it can be $(WORKSPACE)/edk2-platforms or $(WORKSPACE)/<any directory
> name that user can define during git sync>
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> As our dsc files are relative to PACKAGES_PATH, I want to specify their path
> in dsc file like this:
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> !include $(PACKAGES_PATH)/Silicon/NXP/<Silicon Name>.dsc
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> Using $(WORKSPACE), I cannot specify above path, as it can be at place other
> than $(WORKSPACE)/edk2-platforms
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But why do you need to !include things in the first place?

Can you explain how you are trying to organize the files, and which
file includes which?