From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Fischer Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:26:59 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] How does an offline build work? In-Reply-To: <326f33790806041344p65f55e31i3e9a507ef1176a72@mail.gmail.com> References: <326f33790806041344p65f55e31i3e9a507ef1176a72@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080604212659.GG27768@mx.loc> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:44:56PM -0700, Arun Reddy wrote: >I am now using Subversion access so I can update the source tree whenever I >want, but if I were to go back to using the Buildroot snapshot image, will >doing an offline build "make source" allow me to do a build without >Buildroot being updated? offline has nothing to do with this. > Or is it just a way for all the files, packages, >etc, to be downloaded first so that I can continue the build in a place >where I do not have network access? yes. >Could someone clarify this? The Buildroot documentation doesn't have a >detailed explanation on how the offline build is supposed to work. Thank >you! It may not be detailed but answers all you asked above. $ make help and read everything (at least below "Miscellaneous:"). Twice. :) And then, right in the mentioned README the above is documentend extensively. HTH,