From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:49:25 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-infra: limit -reconfigure and -rebuild actions In-Reply-To: References: <1342791572-18657-1-git-send-email-rbraun@sceen.net> <20120720222722.5f89af04@skate> <20120720233136.GA25851@mail.sceen.net> <20120721145411.6e291ad2@skate> <20120721151730.GA2543@mail.sceen.net> Message-ID: <50CB2E65.10100@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 22/07/12 20:27, Alex Bradbury wrote: > On 21 July 2012 17:14, Samuel Martin wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Here, I'll try to sum up what we talked few days ago on the IRC >> channel, plus give my opinion about this. >> >> To be honest, the first time i tried these -reconfigure and -rebuild >> targets, I was surprised they didn't behave as I would expect from >> targets named like that, rebuilding not only the package but the >> images too. So, I keep doing things by hands... though I understand >> why things were implemented like this. > > I'm a newcomer to buildroot and was surprised by the effect of > -reconfigure and -rebuild. I'd read about them in the slides from one > of Tom's talks, and given their description I had assumed they would > rebuild only the package. Reading the responses here, I can see why it > is useful to have a target that rebuilds a single package and also > makes the image (though really, it seems not that hard for the user to > do another make command to build the image in that case). I would love > to see a build target with the proposed semantics. A colleague of mine (again) made this remark to me today... So, will we accept this change or not? Clearly it changes the behaviour, but I don't expect people will use -rebuild or -reconfigure in scripts so it shouldn't hurt. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F