[Buildroot] Using a local kernel tarball?

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 07:57:51 UTC 2015


Hi Bill,

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Bill Borton <security at conwin.com> wrote:
> Thank you sir.
>
> That was actually one of the first things I tried:
> "file://board/company/product/kernel.tar.bz"
> which doesn't work. I also tried ../ and ../../
>
> With your suggestion I went back and tried again:
> "file://../../../board/company/product/kernel.tar.bz"
> Does the trick...
>
> I knew there must be a simple solution.

You can do away with the relative paths using a make variable like TOPDIR:

BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL_LOCATION="file://$(TOPDIR)/board/company/product/kernel.tar.bz"

Best regards,
Thomas


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