[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4 v2] tools: add a directory to store some useful user-facing tools

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

Ricardo, All,

On 2017-06-20 23:06 -0300, Ricardo Martincoski spake thusly:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On 2017-06-18 22:11 -0300, Ricardo Martincoski spake thusly:
> [snip]
> >> BUT if it is called without a .config file, it hangs forever waiting for input,
> >> and the menuconfig is sent to the log file.
> > 
> > Indeed, my use-case is to only use it in an already-configured tree.
> > 
> >> Maybe we can bailout if no .config is present.
> > 
> > Hmmm... It's not trivial do detect, because the .config file is not
> > necessarily in the current directory, for example:
> > 
> >     brmake -C /pat/to/buil-dir
> > 
> > and I don't want to write a make option interpeter either...
> 
> Oh, I see now it is not trivial.

Yet I think I was able to do it in a minimalist way that should cover
99.999999% of the cases (or so I hope, famous last words):
    https://git.buildroot.org/~ymorin/git/buildroot/commit/?h=yem/contrib&id=221c72431bb12e0dde4051d9317d9fee2bee6eb2

I'll resubmit soon (after a bit more testing...)

> Only on the first use the user can get confused.
> I think adding a usage example in the file header is enough, saying the script
> must be run inside or pointing to (-C from make) an output directory already
> configured, or something like that.
> 
> [snip]
> >> > +    a script that can be run instead of make, that prepends the date in
> >> > +    front of each line, redirects all of the build output to a file
> >> > +    ("'br.log' in the current directory), and just ouputs the Buildroot
> >> 
> >> Maybe this file will be dropped as discussed in
> >> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/777446/
> >> If not, there is a typo
> >> 
> >> ouputs -> outputs
> > 
> > Yup, I already dropped the file locally.
> [snip]
> 
> The purpose of the script (initially in 00-README.txt, with the typo fixed)
> could be placed in the script header as well.

Yep, good idea. I'll do that.

Thanks!

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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