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From: Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] How does an offline build work?
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:26:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080604212659.GG27768@mx.loc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <326f33790806041344p65f55e31i3e9a507ef1176a72@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:44:56PM -0700, Arun Reddy wrote:

>I am now using Subversion access so I can update the source tree whenever I
>want, but if I were to go back to using the Buildroot snapshot image, will
>doing an offline build "make source" allow me to do a build without
>Buildroot being updated? 

offline has nothing to do with this.

>                         Or is it just a way for all the files, packages,
>etc, to be downloaded first so that I can continue the build in a place
>where I do not have network access?

yes.

>Could someone clarify this? The Buildroot documentation doesn't have a
>detailed explanation on how the offline build is supposed to work. Thank
>you!

It may not be detailed but answers all you asked above.
$ make help

and read everything (at least below "Miscellaneous:"). Twice. :)
And then, right in the mentioned README the above is documentend
extensively.

HTH,

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-04 20:44 [Buildroot] How does an offline build work? Arun Reddy
2008-06-04 21:10 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-06-04 21:26 ` Bernhard Fischer [this message]
2008-06-04 22:26   ` Arun Reddy

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