[Buildroot] multiple architectures

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 08:13:22 UTC 2009


Hi,

2009/9/30 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Le Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:26:58 -0500,
> Igor Serebryany <igor47 at moomers.org> a écrit :
>
>>       I need both an x86 and an amd64 version of my buildroot
>> filesystem and kernel. I've been making this happen by a very
>> inefficient process - keeping two copies of the buildroot source (one
>> for each arch), making local/projectname an svn working copy, making
>> all changes to the x86 version and using 'svn update' to merge changes
>>       back into the amd64 version.
>>
>>       I'm sure there must be a better way. How do people on here
>> manage maintaining identical builds for multiple architectures?
>
> Use out-of-tree compilation with O=, with two different configurations
> files.

How about that the default BR output directory contains an arch
postfix? This would eliminate the need for manually setting O=
according to the current .config. Instead it would happen
automatically.

Any thoughts?

Regards,
Bjørn Forsman


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