[Buildroot] Crosstool-NG unnecessary rebuilds [BUG]

Przemyslaw Wrzos przemyslaw.wrzos at calyptech.com
Wed Mar 13 08:12:17 UTC 2013


Hello Thomas,

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 at 18:37:25, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Dear Przemyslaw Wrzos,
> 
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:14:17 +1100, Przemyslaw Wrzos wrote:
> 
>> I'm finding that when using Crosstool-NG, the toolchain often seems
to
>> rebuild unnecessarily.
> 
> Isn't this caused by the following dependency
> 
> $(CTNG_DIR)/.config: $(CTNG_CONFIG_FILE) $(BUILDROOT_CONFIG)
> 
> I don't think we should depend on the Buildroot configuration here. It
> tries to be too smart by triggering the rebuild of the toolchain
> whenever the Buildroot configuration has changed, but this isn't
> normally done in Buildroot, so I'd say this dependency on
> $(BUILDROOT_CONFIG) shouldn't be there. Cc'ing Yann on this one.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas

Yes, removing that dependency should also resolve this issue.

Cheers,
Przemyslaw Wrzos


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