[Buildroot] [PATCH] Complain loudly if BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR does not exit

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 22/10/14 13:54, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
> Other question, why don't put that bit of code at the beginning of the
> target stamp_patched ? Or at least in the target stamp_patched ?

 Because we prefer to have checks for the validity of the .config immediately,
before the build is started. Even a 'make savedefconfig' or 'make graph-depends'
will trigger the error. For this particular one it is not so important, but for
other checks it is really useful to have it before the build begins and not
after half an hour of building.

 Note that this is currently not always the case, e.g. dependencies.sh, external
toolchain validity. But if possible, I prefer .config checks to be done in make.


 Regards,
 Arnout


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