From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:18:36 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] linux custom tarball: automatically detect a change in tarball configuration In-Reply-To: References: <7ee0d57e0b0bbf8917e2.1316595354@localhost6.localdomain6> <20110922215817.1bba4c82@skate> Message-ID: <201109270818.37828.arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Friday 23 September 2011 08:16:09, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > > I agree that their is a minor inconvenience in having the directory > > always named linux-custom/, but I don't have a good solution in mind. > > The other solution that I implemented in buildroot-2010.11 is to make > the download step depend on the tarball, instead of on a stamp file. > Since linux now uses gentargets, this would require a change in the > whole of gentargets as well. > Essentially, the .stamp_downloaded file would be no longer needed, and > the tarball would serve as stamp file. > > Would you prefer such a solution? I certainly would. I never really understood why the dependencies are between the phony targets instead of the stamp files. Otherwise, I could just touch a stamp file to force all subsequent build steps to run. However, I guess the buildroot masters must have their reasons :-) Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 31BB CF53 8660 6F88 345D 54CC A836 5879 20D7 CF43 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: