[Buildroot] [PATCH 12/13] docs/manual: document the usage of <pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sun Feb 23 21:29:39 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

Hi,

 >> +appropriate solution, because this directory is removed on +make
 >> +clean+.
 >> +
 >> +Therefore, Buildroot provides a specific mechanism for this use case:
 >> +the +<pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR+ mechanism. Buildroot reads an _override_
 >> +file, which allows the user to tell Buildroot the location of the
 >> +source for certain packages. By default this _override_ file is named
 >> ++local.mk+ and located in the top directory of the Buildroot source
 >> +tree,

 > Wrong, now it is locate in $(CONFIG_DIR), that is, the directory where
 > we have the .config file, since:
 >     b1e514d Config: default BR2_PACKAGE_OVERRIDE_FILE to $(CONFIG_DIR)/local.mk

 > This is Buildroot's top dir when building in-tree, and for out-of-tree
 > builds, it's in $(O).

True, but that commit is only in next, and I imho think this series
belongs on master, so I'll leave it for now.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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