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
next prev parent 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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