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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: don't recreate staging symlink if it exists
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:44:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200218194418.5f38002b@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXf6LWzJA5tnAXs3KMPip77men=bjgRYKf_KOUizrjP4WHkPg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:59:49 +0100
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> wrote:

> > The question that comes to mind is: why are you building something
> > against the Buildroot toolchain/sysroot, before the Buildroot build has
> > completed ?  
> 
> No, the initial Buildroot build _is_ completed first. Then the
> application build starts according to the scenario described.
> In our case, the extra Buildroot 'make' is done to let Buildroot
> create the images, passing a custom TARGET_DIR which is an extended
> copy of the original output/target. This step happens multiple times
> for different boards, out of the same Buildroot (the boards differ a
> bit in our own software plus perhaps some other customization done in
> the rootfs). From the perspective of the application build, the fact
> that Buildroot 'make' is called shouldn't matter because all the files
> it needs will not be touched. Buildroot itself is also retained as-is,
> except it is asked to produce images.

Ah, ok. Convoluted use case, but OK. Anyway, the change makes sense, so
we'll apply. Thanks for the additional explanation!

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-18 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-18 15:00 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: use HOST_DIR_SYMLINK instead of hardcoding Thomas De Schampheleire
2020-02-18 15:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: don't recreate staging symlink if it exists Thomas De Schampheleire
2020-02-18 15:40   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2020-02-18 17:59     ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2020-02-18 18:44       ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2020-02-19 19:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: use HOST_DIR_SYMLINK instead of hardcoding Thomas Petazzoni

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