[Buildroot] List of pending patches: what to do?

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:33:18 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> I am currently used to -reconfigure and -rebuild to rebuild also the
> rootfs, but I also agree it's inconsistent with the other targets. If
> we want to be strict, then foo-reconfigure can only configure, not
> build. And foo-rebuild can only build.

Yerk, that's a bit ugly. foo-reconfigure removes the configure, build
stamp files as well as the host, staging, images and target install
stamp files. foo-rebuild does the same, except for the configure stamp
file.

So, I would find it strange if foo-reconfigure only did the configure
again and not the entire package build process. Same for foo-rebuild.

Remember, the use case for those is someone who is actively working on
the source code of a package (mainly when using the OVERRIDE_SRCDIR
thing or the local site method) and wants to be able to restart the
build of the package, just as if he was running 'make && make install'
in his package source code.

So the intention is really to have 'make foo-rebuild' do that 'make &&
make install' for the user, for the package <foo>.

Best regards,

Thomas
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