From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Woody Wu Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:12:10 +0800 Subject: [Buildroot] How to rebuild root filesystem? In-Reply-To: <20130708102732.46a8b87d@skate> References: <20130708045657.GA29211@zuhnb712.ap.bm.net> <20130708102732.46a8b87d@skate> Message-ID: <20130708141210.GA11258@zuhnb712> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:27:32AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Woody Wu, > > On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:56:58 +0800, Woody Wu wrote: > > > Since things in my output/target got messed, hence I want to rebuild > > everything in that directory and recreate the root filesystem image. How > > can I ask buildroot to do it? > > > > I knew that 'make clean' and 'make' will do it. But, my external > > toolchain also get rebuilt, that can take very long time. > > No, if you're using an external toolchain, it does *not* gets rebuilt > every time you do make clean && make. It's the whole point of using an > external toolchain. > okay, may be it tooks too long time to make me think it was building the toolchain, maybe it was just building the kernel. Whatever. When I said external toolchain, I actually's talking about Code Sourery which can be selected from buildroot toolchain configuration menu. Maybe she's now so external. Anyway, for my real question, is there a solution? How to reuild the root filesystem from scratch. Thanks! - woody