From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:54:54 -0700 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] kconfig: support read-only Buildroot source directories In-Reply-To: References: <1439504572-20085-1-git-send-email-hollis_blanchard@mentor.com> <20150817225329.6b4e8453@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <55E0CA9E.4060304@mentor.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net It's on my list, but I don't expect to be able to get back to this for quite a while. Sorry! Hollis Blanchard Mentor Graphics Emulation Division On 08/28/2015 12:35 PM, Erico Nunes wrote: > Hello all, > > This bug seems to be somewhat major to remain in the 2015.08 release, > as it prevents users from using a read-only buildroot source with > out-of-tree builds. > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Petazzoni > wrote: >> Thanks for this patch! It looks good in principle, but is not done >> correctly. support/kconfig/ is directly inherited from the kernel >> source code, and we keep a series of patches in >> support/kconfig/patches/ to clearly identify the changes we made >> compared to the original kernel version. See >> support/kconfig/README.buildroot for details. >> >> Could you rework your patch to also add a patch to >> support/kconfig/patches/ ? Can you check whether the problem also >> exists in the kernel kconfig code, and if so, report the problem to the >> kernel developers ? >> > Hollis, did you manage to evolve this issue with the kernel developers? > Or, will you have time to work this patch before the release according > to Thomas' review? > I believe it would be a very important fix, and I could pick it in > case you are unable right now. > > Thanks, > > Erico