From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:37:51 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] tiff: ensure directory exists before installing to it In-Reply-To: References: <1410488467-2093-1-git-send-email-danomimanchego123@gmail.com> <20140922192503.23ee2050@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140923093751.4addbd77@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Danomi Manchego, On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:19:03 -0400, Danomi Manchego wrote: > I do not have a defconfig that demonstrates this. I tend to encounter > these kind of error when I do the following trick to observe what > exactly is installed to the target directory: > > make tiff-rebuild TARGET_DIR=$(pwd)/TIFF > tree TIFF > > If I hit an error, they I figure that I'm just one mostly empty custom > skeleton and convoluted dependency graph away from hitting the error > in real life. So then I submit a patch. Ok, thanks for the explanation. However, I'm wondering if we want to support this. By doing this, you completely circumvent the preparation work that is done by Buildroot: when you do make tiff-rebuild, only the building and installation steps are re-executed with a different TARGET_DIR. So any preparation work done before, such as directories created by the global "dirs" target (on which all packages depend) will not be done in your new TARGET_DIR. Peter, Fabio, any opinion on this? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com