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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/10] microcom: convert to gentargets
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:48:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878w2cs9oo.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim76qFFMTStNN-D_ompE2Bcw+ZeT0aWgBE3bd=e@mail.gmail.com> (Martin Banky's message of "Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:54:47 -0700")

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Banky <Martin.Banky@gmail.com> writes:

 Martin> Thomas,

 Martin> ???? I guess I should have explained this better. What I meant
 Martin> about microcom being a flat archive, is that when you extract
 Martin> it, it does not create a directory for itself. It just sticks
 Martin> its files, without a directory being created, in the current
 Martin> directory. $(TAR_STRIP_COMPONENTS)=1 is 'Automatically detect
 Martin> tar --strip-path/components option', which, equates to either
 Martin> --strip-path or --strip-components, depending on the version of
 Martin> tar. Per the man page: --strip-components = 'strip NUMBER
 Martin> leading components from file names on extraction', which means
 Martin> that for microcom, which doesn't have a directory structure, it
 Martin> strips all the file names off, so no files actually get
 Martin> extracted. This in turn, means that the patch routine does not
 Martin> work. Hence, the reason for manually patching microcom. If you
 Martin> have a better solution, I'd appreciate it, if you would show
 Martin> me, because I couldn't figure one out. I hope this makes more
 Martin> sense.

Maybe we should just get rid of the microcom package instead? It was
integrated into busybox a few years ago, which is also why it was marked
as deprecated.

I'll remove it later this week unless someone complains.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-05  8:22 [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/10] input-tools: convert to gentargets Martin Banky
2010-10-05  8:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/10] lsof: convert to gentargets and bump to 4.84 Martin Banky
2010-12-12 16:58   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-10-05  8:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/10] lvm2: convert to autotargets and bump to 2.02.74 Martin Banky
2010-12-12 16:59   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-10-05  8:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/10] memtester: convert to gentargets and bump to 4.2.0 Martin Banky
2010-12-12 17:11   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-10-05  8:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/10] microcom: convert to gentargets Martin Banky
2010-10-05  9:21   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-10-05 18:54     ` Martin Banky
2010-10-05 19:48       ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2010-10-05 21:05         ` Martin Banky
2010-10-05 21:13           ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-10-05 21:58             ` Martin Banky
2010-12-12 17:12         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-10-05  8:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/10] microperl: " Martin Banky
2010-10-05  9:19   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-10-05 19:10     ` Martin Banky
2010-10-05  8:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/10] mii-diag: convert to gentargets and bump to 2.11.3 Martin Banky
2010-10-05  8:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/10] alsa-utils: convert to autotargets and bump to 1.0.23 Martin Banky
2010-10-05  8:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/10] mplayer: convert to gentargets Martin Banky
2010-10-06  3:42   ` Chih-Min Chao
2010-10-06  5:55     ` Martin Banky
2010-10-08 20:45   ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
2010-10-10 21:50     ` Martin Banky
2010-12-12 21:12   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-10-05  8:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/10] netplug: convert to gentargets and bump to 1.2.9.2 Martin Banky
2010-10-05  9:17 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/10] input-tools: convert to gentargets Thomas Petazzoni
2010-10-05 18:38   ` Martin Banky
2010-10-05 19:26     ` Martin Banky

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