[Buildroot] Target rebuilding
Jérôme Pouiller
jezz at sysmic.org
Thu Jan 17 11:04:04 UTC 2013
Hello all,
It is handy to do tests directly in target/. But after some time, it is
necessary to make a new fresh target/ directory. The current procedure to do
this is:
* remove build/.root (or remove target/ if you want to throw all your work)
* remove build/*/.stamp_target_installed
* depending of you toolchain:
# remove stamps/ext-toolchain-installed (external)
# remove stamps/ct-ng-toolchain-installed (ctng)
# remove target/lib/libc.so.0 (buildroot)
* launch make
I think this process lacks of consistency. Idealy, this process should be:
rm -r target (depending if want to throw all your work)
rm build/*/.stamp_target_installed
make
I suggest following changes:
1. Move build/.root to stamps/. Since it is hidden, many user forget this
file exist.
2. All stamps files are in subdirectories of build/. I suggest to move
stamps/ to build/stamps/
3. Buildroot toolchain should create a stamp files to be uniform with other
toolchains. In add, target/lib/libc.so.0 never exists when PREFER_STATIC_LIB
is enable.
4. To be consistent stamps/*-toolchain-installed may be renamed
stamps/.stamp_target_installed or stamps/.stamp_toolchain_target_installed or
toolchain/.stamp_target_installed. We may add a README file to explain what is
purpose of this apparently empty directory.
5. stamps/ext-toolchain-installed currently copy libc in staging/ and in
target/. It may be splited in two rules: stamps/ext-toolchain-target-installed
and stamps/ext-toolchain-staging-installed.
What do you think about it?
Regards,
--
Jérôme Pouiller
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