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From: Andi Shyti <andi@etezian.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] scripts: apply-patches: don't stop if no patch is found for a package
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 21:17:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131105201752.GC17791@jack.whiskey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52793E3A.5060802@mind.be>

Hi Arnout,

> >If no patch is available for a specific package it doesn't mean
> >that is necessarily an error, perhaps there is no need to apply
> >any patches. Therefore, don't stop the build by returning '1',
> >but go ahead.
> 
>  This is in fact intentional, because it indicates that there is
> something wrong with the configuration. When you specify in your
> configuration that some specific patch directory should be used, but
> that directory doesn't exist, then it probably means you made a
> mistake in your configuration.
> 
>  Can you give an example of a specific situation where you had a
> problem with this check?

this happens when for example you want to get as cross compiler
the daily snapshot instead of a specific version.

The build stops with an error because of that 'exit 1' since it
doesn't find any gcc-20131105 patch directory (i think the
snapshot is called so).

Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-05 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-05 13:00 [Buildroot] [PATCH] scripts: apply-patches: don't stop if no patch is found for a package Andi Shyti
2013-11-05 18:51 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-11-05 20:17   ` Andi Shyti [this message]
2013-11-06 21:32     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-11-06 22:16       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-11-06 22:59       ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] gcc: use generic infrastructure for patches Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-11-06 23:13         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-11-06 23:17           ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-11-06 23:20           ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-11-06 23:23             ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-11-07  1:19         ` Andi Shyti
2013-11-06 23:40       ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] scripts: apply-patches: don't stop if no patch is found for a package Andi Shyti

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