From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:16:01 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/16 v3] core: introduce a generated kconfig snippet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20160827161601.2fd0e8f5@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:34:26 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > +.PHONY: $(BUILD_DIR)/.br2-external.in Why is a real file that exists on the filesystem a phony target? > +# Ensure the kconfig snippet is generated (for MANUAL_GEN_LISTS, below): > +MANUAL_DEPENDENCIES += prepare-kconfig It's a bit crazy the complexity that we have just to allow our manual to have the list of all packages in Buildroot. I'm not even sure this section of the manual is that useful, to be honest. But oh well, that's supported today, so we have to continue support it. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com