From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert P. J. Day Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 03:34:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Buildroot] make clean not so clean In-Reply-To: <1201844203.3526.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <214360.55769.qm@web56410.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <1201844203.3526.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Ormund Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 21:02 -0800, jake sullivan wrote: > > I'm not sure how to go about fixing this, but I have been able to > > recreate an annoying little bug (that I think is the source of a > > number of other newb problems). > > > ...(snip)... > > My gut says to update "make clean" to delete all the config files (and > > basically everything but the source files), but before I put work into > > making and testing a patch, I want to make sure that is the right > > approach... > > > Don't know about "Right Appraach", but I just locate my download > directory outside the Buildroot tree. > > Under: Build Options ---> > > $(BASE_DIR)/../dl) Download dir to save me the trouble of pawing through the source, if you override the default download directory (of "dl"?), does that mean a "make distclean" will leave all the downloads alone? thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================