From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Francesco Montorsi <francesco.montorsi@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:02:32 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Buildroot]
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J?r?me Pouiller <jezz@...> writes:
> > does a "rm -rf output/target && make" works?
> As Thomas said, it does not work. But, some unofficial hacks exist:
> 
>   * remove build/.root will force to reinstall skeleton
> 
>   * remove build/*/.stamp_target_installed force reinstall each target package
> 
>   * depending of you toolchain, you can reinstall libc and co by removing
>       # stamps/ext-toolchain-installed (external)
>       # stamps/ct-ng-toolchain-installed (ctng)
>       # target/lib/libc.so.0 (buildroot)
> 
> Remind, there are ton of reasons these tips could do wrong things. The only 
> current official way to rebuild target is "make clean".
> 
Thanks!
I will test this approach next time, after doing a backup copy :)

Anyway I think it would be nice to have an additional target in the buildroot 
Makefile which does the operations above (with possible additional quirks) :)

Francesco