[Buildroot] Regenerating Skeleton without a clean in 2017

[Buildroot] Regenerating Skeleton without a clean in 2017

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi,

In the older buildroot releases  one could force a reintegration of a skeleton overlay with various hacks like removing the .root file in build, are there any equivalents in Buildroot-2017.02-4. I understand this is not best practice but I have some quick prototyping to do and the build time is an issue.

Regards
JohnOS

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[Buildroot] Regenerating Skeleton without a clean in 2017

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:17:15 +0000, John O'Sullivan wrote:

> In the older buildroot releases  one could force a reintegration of a
> skeleton overlay with various hacks like removing the .root file in
> build, are there any equivalents in Buildroot-2017.02-4. I understand
> this is not best practice but I have some quick prototyping to do and
> the build time is an issue.

$ make skeleton-rebuild

should do the trick in Buildroot 2017.02. Starting with 2017.08, this
won't work as the skeleton has been split into several packages.

However, you should stop using a custom skeleton, and use a root
filesystem overlay instead (perhaps with a post build script). Why do
you still use a custom skeleton ?

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Regenerating Skeleton without a clean in 2017

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply, we use it largely for historical reasons, I will check out the root filesystem overlay as you suggest

Regards
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Petazzoni [mailto:thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com]
Sent: 10 November 2017 13:42
To: John O'Sullivan
Cc: buildroot at busybox.net
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Regenerating Skeleton without a clean in 2017

Hello,

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:17:15 +0000, John O'Sullivan wrote:

> In the older buildroot releases  one could force a reintegration of a
> skeleton overlay with various hacks like removing the .root file in
> build, are there any equivalents in Buildroot-2017.02-4. I understand
> this is not best practice but I have some quick prototyping to do and
> the build time is an issue.

$ make skeleton-rebuild

should do the trick in Buildroot 2017.02. Starting with 2017.08, this won't work as the skeleton has been split into several packages.

However, you should stop using a custom skeleton, and use a root filesystem overlay instead (perhaps with a post build script). Why do you still use a custom skeleton ?

Best regards,

Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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