From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:19:30 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] Where does post-build script belong? In-Reply-To: <4F4D4FE4.3020506@gmail.com> References: <4F4D4FE4.3020506@gmail.com> Message-ID: <201202282219.30414.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 Tuesday 28 February 2012 22:06:28 Steve Calfee wrote: > > I seem to be completely lost. Is board/mycompany/myproduct/skeleton > > above a post-build script or a custom skelecton (something you set > > BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_CUSTOM_PATH to point to)? > Hi Grant, > > I was not aware of that config option. In fact there are no uses of it > in the current /board... stuff. What I and what I think others have done > is create my own mini-skeleton in the board.... directory. I can then > stick in scripts, etc files and maybe even externally built binaries > into /usr/bin/ in my local area. Then when the post build script is > executed I just copy all the files from my skeleton to the target > skeleton. This will overlay the default stuff (that are duplicates in my > area) and add any new stuff. After the post-build script the target > skeleton will get all packaged up as a rootfs for your target system. > > Someone else will have to describe what that option is for. If you ask me, BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_CUSTOM_PATH is indeed useless and should be deprecated. 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: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F