[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: simplify LINUX_BUILD_CMDS
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Mon Apr 8 20:58:48 UTC 2019
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> On 2019-04-08 22:21 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
>> We currently do the Linux build as follows:
>>
>> make <imagename>
>> if modules enabled; make modules; fi
>>
>> However, Clement Léger recently reported that due to us not using the
>> "all" target, the GDB scripts that the kernel can build when
>> CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS is enabled are not built, since upstream kernel
>> commit 67274c083438340ad16c1437caebc84e1253b224 (merged in v5.1) moved
>> that logic to a separate scripts_gdb target, which is a dependency of
>> the "all" target.
>>
>> While we could add some more logic to explicit generate the
>> "scripts_gdb" target, this logic would fail on Linux < 5.1 for which
>> this make target doesn't exist.
>>
>> So instead, let's simplify the build logic, and use:
>>
>> make all <imagename>
> While we are at simplifying: do we still need to specify imagename?
> Isn't the image name either:
> - implicit for the architecture, or
> - specified as a config option in the linux configuration?
I'm not sure that is always the case, E.G. the uImage target is afaik
not built by "make all".
The patch itself looks good:
Reviewed-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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