[Buildroot] Still can't build working rootfswith crosstool-NGtoolchain

[Microbit_P43000 <microbit@virginbroadband.com.au>]

Thanks Grant,

That puts my soul at rest a bit... &:). Wish I posted this many months ago, oh well...
I have a copy of the 'dl' dir, re-extract BR, re-copy the dl directory contents and
re-import
my configs for everything and make. 
At one stage the whole cycle took ~ 1 hour 15 mins. Common sense had to prevail I guess -
it's just a lot faster than chasing ghosts - it seems that your experience matches the
observations I made.

Being unfamiliar with BR as I was, naturally one always doubts themselves first.
I really wanted to know wtf exactly was going on. Never have, never will - I guess.

Shame, although I really like buildroot, it is/was extremely irritating.
(It used to be much worse for me when I started, then BR still supported "multiple
projects", that I just
_never_ got a handle on. Things would go ape frequently, a rebuild of one project would 
- guess what - ...trigger a "complete rebuild" of the internal toolchain after making a
subsequent small change in the other project - It seems it was a good idea to do away with
that, blah)

But I learned heaps in the process. So something constructive after all - BR2 still is my
favourite so far. I like its flexibility !!

Best Regards,
Kris 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: buildroot-bounces at busybox.net [mailto:buildroot-bounces at busybox.net] On Behalf Of
> Grant Edwards
> Sent: Thursday, 22 April 2010 12:06 AM
> To: buildroot at uclibc.org
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Still can't build working rootfswith crosstool-NGtoolchain
> 
> On 2010-04-21, Microbit_P43000 <microbit@virginbroadband.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > It's a while ago I've been through this - but the common denominator
> > of course is the fact that the lib is dynamically linked. The config
> > of float/lib is just fine - it compiles on a fresh install - or
> > consequent builds for my rootfs, Nano runs perfect - no problemo.
> >
> > I just couldn't pin down _what_ exactly triggers BR2 to "remake"
> > itself completely. It mostly would happen *after* I change a simple
> > option in Busybox - of all things. How exactly does that warrant
> > RE-building the whole install (incl internal toolchain) ???
> 
> I never do anything with buildroot other than complete ground-up
> builds from scratch.  Despite the documented ways to do partial
> rebuilds, I was never able to reliably do a parial rebuild.  After
> several instances of spending hours or days chasing problems that went
> away after a complete re-build, I simply gave up on doing anything
> other than building from zero.
> 
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