From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:59:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Buildroot] Overriding DL_DIR in the environment In-Reply-To: <1187370334.31026.4.camel@elrond.sweden.atmel.com> References: <1187370334.31026.4.camel@elrond.sweden.atmel.com> Message-ID: <0708171957370.14301@somehost> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > I keep a central download location for all tarballs, > and find it a pain to always have to edit the DL_DIR > variable during "make menuconfig". > > It would be nice to be able to override the ".config" > value of DL_DIR in the shell environment. > > Here is a simple patch which will, > if you define > > $ export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR /usr/local/install/downloads > > in your ".bashrc", override the DL_DIR in the ".config". Wouldn't a symlink (that's what I use) sort that out? Cheers, -- Cristian