From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 16:01:51 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: ensure images/ exist before creatign files there In-Reply-To: <20181203191219.18998-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Mon, 3 Dec 2018 20:12:19 +0100") References: <20181203191219.18998-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <87h8fda528.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: > When using an initramfs, on the first-pass build, we create a dummy cpio > so that the build succeeeds. The real cpio will come later, and we'll do > a second-pass build to use the actual cpio. > However, when we touch that dummy cpio, the images/ directory may not > yet exist, since commit d0f4f95e39 (Makefile: rework main directory > creation logic) removed its creation at the begining of the build, to > only at the moment we need it, i.e. during the *_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS > steps. > However, the linux build is not a _INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS step, so there is > no guarantee that images/ already exist at that time. > Fix that by explicitly creating images/ before touching the dummy cpio. > Reported-by: Matthew Weber > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > Cc: Matthew Weber > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Committed to 2018.02.x, 2018.08.x and 2018.11.x, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard