From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:31:37 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] multiple architectures In-Reply-To: <5f2b60909300113o53ef97b7j6910562af6ebb8be@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090930062658.GG25852@moomers.org> <20090930090102.0189852d@surf> <5f2b60909300113o53ef97b7j6910562af6ebb8be@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090930103137.304aa012@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:13:22 +0200, Bj?rn Forsman a ?crit : > How about that the default BR output directory contains an arch > postfix? This would eliminate the need for manually setting O= > according to the current .config. Instead it would happen > automatically. This was the case previously. But I don't think it's a good idea, since it only solves partially the problem: what if you have several projects, but all these projects use the same architecture ? This is even more common than multiple architectures projects: you work on ARM (for example), but you build different filesystems for different usages of the device. In that case, a default output-arm/ directory would not solve the problem. A possibility would be to add a configuration option to set the output directory path, instead of passing O=. I don't have a strong opinion on this, but I'd prefer not to have both solutions. The fact that Buildroot has multiple solutions to do approximately the same thing is a large part of the confusion for our new users, and I would like to reduce this confusion. Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com