Re: [Buildroot] Defining a package with no dependencies

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello,

On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 19:30:07 -0400
Jameson Collins <jameson.collins@gmail.com> wrote:

> If I have a package that doesn't build anything, doesn't depend on
> anything, and doesn't have anything depending on it, is it possible to tell
> buildroot to build this package without first building the toolchain?

You could do:

<pkg>_ADD_TOOLCHAIN_DEPENDENCY = NO

but that's normally reserved for packages that are part of the
toolchain build.

> An example of a package like this might be the `flash-my-board` recipe that
> is shown in the manual.  Yes, in this case the package doesn't make any
> sense unless boot.bin existed, but you can see how it might be useful to
> have a package that performs a task and not necessarily generate a build
> product.

flash-my-board inside the manual is *not* a package. It's just an
example in the external.mk, to show that external.mk can be used to
provide additional custom make targets. It has nothing to do with a
package.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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