[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] Supporting a second Barebox build to build the MLO/SPL

[Pieter Smith <pieter@boesman.nl>]

Hi Arnout,

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 27-10-15 18:21, Pieter Smith wrote:
> > What are your thoughts on this?
> 
>  Thinking out of the box here: would it be possible to keep a single barebox
> package and do everything twice (or more) in the _CMDS, with different output
> directories?
> 
>  Granted, that will be a bit tricky w.r.t. the kconfig infra.

My initial approach was exactly what you are suggesting. It works fine for
compiling the images, but it falls apart on other useful make infrastructure
that you would want to run at a finer granularity:

Wanting to build barebox with two configs, you would typically want to run
%-menuconfig for each of the two. This is not possible if the two builds are
not implemented by two separate packages in the buildroot make environment. It
simply ends up not being handy if the two build configurations are not
addressable as two separate packages.

> 
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
> 
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Regards,
Pieter Smith