From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:04:00 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Any way to override .config settings? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <50D255F0.8030107@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 19/12/12 23:20, Charles Manning wrote: > I need to be able to build a system from an svn repository using a > bunch of different revisions for different elements. For example, I > might want to use the kernel at r 1234, u-boot at r 4567 and the > rootfs+apps at r 3344. Uh? Sounds like a horrible idea to me. > Now I could achieve this by going into the .config with menuconfig and > changing the config, but I would prefer to be able to have a file of > revisions to use and have buildroot pick up those revision symbols > instead. I don't see the relation between the .config and svn revisions. > I guess there are a few ways this could be handled: > > 1) Is there a built in mechanism in buildroot to include extra symbols > and override those in .config? Yes, the package override file: BR2_PACKAGE_OVERRIDE_FILE, defaults to $(TOPDIR)/local.mk. I use this to include a bunch of project-specific .mk files that add packages without requiring a Config.in. Regards, Arnout > 2) Run my own script that nobbles the .config using sed etc. > > Is there something built in to buildroot that will do this? > > Thanks > > Charles -- 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