[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] v01d commented on issue #2206: Out-of-tree custom board example missing from documentation

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v01d commented on issue #2206:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/2206#issuecomment-721152691


   Thank you for opening this issue, I'm always annoyed by the same issue but since I don't do this really often I neglected this.
   
   > Regarding documentation, I was always willing to do that but always get discouraged by the chicken and egg problem of generating the defconfig or hand editing it.
   
   That's exactly the problem: when you create a custom board you need an existing one as template (writing everything from scratch does not make sense). If you copy a non-custom board and try to configure it with configure.sh this immediately fails because the ARCH_BOARD_CUSTOM is not yet set. Hand-editing the config is not really something that should be normal for this.
   
   What could we do to improve this? Of course we could make a "make-custom.sh" script but sounds a hack. Maybe we can add the ability to recognize an out-of-tree board to configure.sh and set the appropriate configs?
   


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