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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] What's the buildroot attitude to u-boot building?
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:50:53 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ledfud$cnf$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140223111839.1ef569b9@skate

On 2014-02-23, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> I guess here it's really a matter of taste.

True.

> I've seen a large of number of people/companies who really like the
> fact that one *single* Buildroot configuration is building their
> entire embedded Linux system: toolchain, rootfs, kernel and
> bootloader images.

If those make up the entire embedded Linux system, then that would be
convenient.

> It is indeed clear that Buildroot used to be mainly aimed at
> "integration", not to be used during development work.
>
> However, based on what you say, it really looks like you have never
> looked at using <pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR together with "make
><pkg>-rebuild", because they do precisely what you're looking for :-)

Indeed, I wasn't aware of those. It looks like they were added after I
decided to build kernel and boot-loader independently.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-23 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-21  1:53 [Buildroot] What's the buildroot attitude to u-boot building? Charles Manning
2014-02-21 14:49 ` Grant Edwards
2014-02-21 23:04   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-22 20:45     ` Grant Edwards
2014-02-23  0:05       ` Mike Zick
2014-02-23 10:18       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-23 18:50         ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2014-02-23 19:56           ` Mike Zick
2014-02-21 23:13 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-24  1:33   ` Charles Manning
2014-02-24  8:37     ` Peter Korsgaard
2014-03-18  5:21       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-03-18  8:05         ` Peter Korsgaard

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