[Buildroot] Build Output

[Dan Pattison <dan.pattison@ethertek.ca>]

On 6/5/2014 1:39 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Dan Pattison,
>
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:27:24 -0700, Dan Pattison wrote:
>
>> I am using the post image script feature to compile and install various
>> custom packages. In my shell and make files I want to make the ouput
> Why don't you create additional Buildroot packages instead? That would
> be a lot more logical that doing this in a post-image script.
>
> Thomas

Hello Thomas,

Thank you for the reply. I found the need to run some custom scripts 
just before the images are created to do various things like add a 
firmware build number file, tar up the /etc folder for use in a factory 
reset situation, and a few other product specific jobs. As it is doing 
each step, it's nice to get the highlighted output for debugging. For 
whatever reason, I started building some custom packages from the 
post-image script also. Peter showed me a way to do the highlight from 
my shell script by making a custom MESSAGE() function.

MESSAGE() {
     tput smso
     echo ">>> $*"
     tput rmso
}

MESSAGE hello world

Thanks,
Dan Pattison
EtherTek Circuits