From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:38:05 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [Bug 8771] make savedefconfig modifies sources In-Reply-To: References: <56DE1142.6080201@mind.be> <20160308090651.293fd95e@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <56DF0DFD.1000707@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 03/08/16 18:01, Steve Calfee wrote: > Personally I find the maintenance of output/.br_external as more > bizarre and confusing. It does allow me to not have to remember to set > BR2_EXTERNAL when make is invoked, but it gets cleaned on make clean. That _is_ a bug IMHO. output/.br_external shouldn't be removed on 'make clean'. However, AFAICS it shouldn't be cleaned, only by distclean, and there it is appropriate of course. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout dot vandecappelle at essensium dot com Senior Embedded Software Architect . . . . . . +32-478-010353 (mobile) Essensium, Mind division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF