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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] support/scripts: add script to test a package
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:43:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170206214344.3bfd403d@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508724e1-501e-4e44-6817-55bcdbf2f8ee@lucaceresoli.net>

Hello,

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:40:58 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:

> Splitting the source step from the build step is nice since it clearly
> separated download-related issues (wrong URL, network down...) from
> build errors.
> 
> But as discussed IRL it also means we download the ACTUAL_SOURCE files,
> which means hundreds of megabytes with external toolchains. Possible
> solutions:
> 
>  * remove the "make source" step and let "make ${pkg}" download only the
>    sources that are really needed for building
>  * remove the "make source" step as above, but only if ${pkg} is empty
>  * add a "source-only-filed-needed-for-build" :) target and use that

I don't really see the need for separating the build step from the
source step in this script. Why not just do the build, and that's it?

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-06 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-06 18:02 [Buildroot] [PATCH] support/scripts: add script to test a package Yann E. MORIN
2017-02-06 20:40 ` Luca Ceresoli
2017-02-06 20:43   ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2017-02-06 20:59     ` Luca Ceresoli
2017-02-07  9:33   ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-02-07 10:48     ` Luca Ceresoli
2017-02-07 14:41     ` Peter Korsgaard
2017-02-07 14:46       ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-02-06 20:44 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2017-02-07  9:52   ` Yann E. MORIN

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