[Buildroot] [PATCH 05/16 v3] core: move rule to create basic directories
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Aug 27 22:07:05 UTC 2016
Thomas, All,
On 2016-08-27 21:41 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:34:25 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Some of those directories will be needed even during configuration, like
> > BUILD_DIR, where we'll store the generated kconfig snippet.
> >
> > So, move the rule to create them outside the HAVE_CONFIG block.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> > Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org>
>
> I've applied this patch to next, after fixing the typo in the commit
> log noticed by Romain Naour. One question below, though.
Thanks! :-)
> > +################################################################################
> > +#
> > +# staging and target directories do NOT list these as
> > +# dependencies anywhere else
> > +#
> > +################################################################################
>
> Do you understand what this comment means? It seems to date back from
> the "major rework" commit 08782ae7d8812933ad3f932132955ea1c0fb1e52 in
> 2002, and I don't really understand the meaning of this comment.
Neither do I... And as a once-colleague-of-mine said:
When you don't know, don't touch!
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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