[Buildroot] [PATCH] Run post scripts referenced by relative paths

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Waldemar, All,

On 2014-01-28 23:06 +0100, Waldemar Rymarkiewicz spake thusly:
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:32:02 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >> Why don't you just set:
> >>   BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT="./my-script ./my-second-script"
> >> (Ditto for BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT.
> >>
> >> I'd say, we don't need that change. I prefer the user be explixit about
> >> what he intends to do, rather than Buildroot guessing.

> Let's leave it as it is now then.
> 
> The point was that neither manual nor menuconfig help explains how a
> script should be referenced. By full path, relative or what. In my
> case the easiest way was  just to put  "a space-separated list of
> scripts" as per help message and it does not work. For someone who is
> not dealing with buildroot frequently it can be an issue. Of course
> you can always use ./your_script, but still it's not explained
> anywhere. Abspath will fix it and it costs nothing, but I understand
> your way of thinking.

Ah, but then we are ready to accept a patch to the manual to fix this! ;-)
The manual is located in docs/manual/ in your buildroot tree, FYI.

Your comment is prefectly valid, indeed, but would better be solved by
fixing the manual instead.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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