[Buildroot] relocate working buildroot

Ulf Samuelsson ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com
Thu Jun 19 03:30:24 UTC 2008


mike sander wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Is anyone able to comment on how best to relocate and/or copy a
> working buildroot?
> 
> I have tried it (relocate to new location on same box) and did a "make
> clean" followed by "make".   Very soon I got failures due to not being
> able to delete some files at the original location.
> 
> With a bit of grepping I discovered that the original configuration
> full path is in numerous (i.e. too many to fix manually) locations
> throughout buildroot related files.
> 
> Are there some specific (maybe hidden) buildroot files that could be
> deleted to force the configuration stage to pick up the new path?
> 

I don't think you can.
I think you need to delete it all and rebuild

build_<arch>
project_build_<arch>
toolchain_build_<arch>

needs to go.

If you want to move to another machine, then you 
could try symlinking.

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Mike Sander
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Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson




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