From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1 of 2] make clean: improve when no .config present
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:04:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130930140438.713b4879@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c5cb4c167d3cb700c22.1380539366@argentina>
Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:09:26 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> The 'make clean' recipe is using variables that are not defined without .config
> file, causing only a partial cleanup when the .config file is accidentally
> deleted.
>
> This patch moves those variables that do not depend on values from .config
> outside the BR2_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG check, so that 'make clean' is much more similar
> with and without .config.
Yeah, this has bothered me for a while, so I agree with that.
> The HOST_DIR (and the derived STAGING_DIR) are determined from BR2_HOST_DIR in
> .config, so the host directory can still not be cleaned correctly without making
> assumptions, if no .config is present.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
>
> ---
> Note: we could improve the HOST_DIR cleanup by removing 'output/host'
> unconditionally, but it's an assumption. Let me know your thoughts on this, it
> could be fixed in another patch.
Hum, yeah, indeed. This means that the contents of output/host are not
removed, which is quite annoying. I don't immediately see a solution to
this problem, though.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-30 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-30 11:09 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 2] 'make clean' improvements Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-30 11:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1 of 2] make clean: improve when no .config present Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-30 12:04 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-10-01 17:20 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-01 19:55 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-09-30 11:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 2] make clean: remove redundant removal of STAGING_DIR Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-01 17:21 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-01 19:59 ` Peter Korsgaard
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