[Buildroot] Hint on switching between targets

André Hentschel nerv at dawncrow.de
Mon Sep 19 21:22:23 UTC 2016


Am 19.09.2016 um 23:01 schrieb Fabio Estevam:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do you mean that you would like to keep some of the already built
>> components when changing configuration? That isn't generally supported.
> 
> Yes, that's correct.
> 
>> If you know what you are doing and the two configurations are
>> sufficiently similar (same arch/toolchain config) then it will work, but
>> Buildroot will not warn you if you do something that doesn't make sense.
>>
>> If you just want to keep your warp7 output around while you build for
>> wandboard you can use out-of-tree builds - E.G.
>>
>> make O=output-wandboard wandboard_defconfig
>> cd output-wandboard && make
> 
> That helps, thanks.


Isn't it easier to just do:

mv output output-warp7
make wandboard_defconfig


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