[Buildroot] Makefile.autotools.in does not work wellwith projects

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>]

On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 11:33 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 08:53:43AM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Makefile.autotools.in does not work wellwith  
> > projects
> >
> >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:43:09PM +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> >>> The Makefile.autotools.in uses a rule which touches a
> >>> stamp_target_installed file, this does not work well with projects.
> >>>
> >>> The Makefile should depend on a file on the target root file system,
> >>> file not there => install to target again.
> >>
> >> Indeed - install stamps are pure evil. They don't work with multiple
> >> projects and they mean you can't "rm -rf
> >> project_build_$(ARCH)/$(PROJECT)/root".
> >
> > I do not think that you want to have install stamps in the root file system
> > because they will end up in the target (unless they are ignored when
> > the rootfs is created).
> 
> I don't think you should use stamps at all - test for a target file
> instead.
> 

And two minutes later I have a RFC for this solution, see attached
patch.

-- 
With kind regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt, Applications Engineer
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