From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:41:48 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] using of local dir In-Reply-To: <032301c88f86$de33de70$060514ac@atmel.com> (Ulf Samuelsson's message of "Wed\, 26 Mar 2008 21\:36\:02 +0100") References: <47EA8F05.8090102@gmx.net> <20080326180926.GA404@mx.loc> <877ifp1bzg.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <032301c88f86$de33de70$060514ac@atmel.com> Message-ID: <87hcetyxgj.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson writes: Hi, >> It indeed seems quite broken. The $LOCAL variable isn't used >> anywhere either. Ulf> Check "project.mk" Ahh. Why isn't the variable set there if it's only used in project.mk anyway? Bernhard> *shrug* I'd rip it out in a whim either way >> >> Well, the local/save/getconfig stuff does seem kinda overengineered - >> Couldn't we just have a bunch of *_defconfig files under configs/ >> instead with a make %_defconfig target like the kernel has instead? >> Ulf> The purpose of this is to allow you to start with an existing Ulf> defconfig, and the commands will collects the different Ulf> configurations in one place. You can't replace this function Ulf> with defconfigs, but you can use the result to create new Ulf> defconfigs. Ulf> At this time, not having access to the source tree, I can't see why LOCAL Ulf> is defined *after* the include, so maybe this needs to be moved. Ulf> Feel free to test. No thanks - You made the mess, and you get to clean it up. I really think we need to focus on getting the basic functionality of buildroot stable and working so we can put out a release instead of adding (what atleast looks like) half baked extensions. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard