[Buildroot] [PATCH] build: add 'file' option for 'make defconfig'

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 11:53:04 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I see. I have been used to having my own repository for buildroot
> and didn't think of people who just download a tarball each time.

Some might, I don't, but I don't want to be carrying patches for the
configs on all my branches either =/

>> BTW, regarding the naming: eventually I'd like to include BR2_DEFCONFIG
>>
>> in the .config, which gets qstripped to DEFCONFIG in the Makefile. This can
>>
>> be used to be able to store the config again, similar to
>> linux-update-defconfig.
>
> I once proposed a patch that did something similar:
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-February/041626.html
>
> It would automatically save the last used 'defconfig' instead of
> requiring an explicit 'file' option.

Yeah but the defconfig would have to be on the configs dir.

Also, this saves the .config, not the simplified defconfig.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras


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