[Buildroot] asking for advice on improving our buildroot setup

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com> writes:

Hi,

 Sven> As you can imagine this build consumes a lot of time and disk space.
 Sven> Currently I can think of two ways to improve this:

 Sven> (1) Add an initial step that builds a toolchain and then use that
 Sven>     toolchain from the following steps. This would save the time
 Sven>     to rebuild the toolchain for each of the steps.

I think that is the best/easiest option.

 Sven> (2) Combine all steps and build different rootfs from within the
 Sven>     same buildroot tree. I read that this would be supported. But
 Sven>     I would like to get advice from you first. Is there a chance
 Sven>     that this will work for the described setup?

Unfortunately not, buildroot only knows of a single rootfs - So you'll
need to build the 2 rootfs'es seperately.

The only other option I could think of is perhaps to combine the two
rootfs'es and include the factory test sw in the device rootfs if that's
an option?

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard