[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] package/makedevs: define extract step to allow patching

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Apr 28 21:44:54 UTC 2021


>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> writes:

 > As recently discussed on the list:
 > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2021-April/308373.html

 > Packages like makedevs where the source code is included in the Buildroot
 > tree, currently doesn't use an extract step (which also skips the patch
 > step), so they cannot be patched by a patch in BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR (or the
 > pkgdir), which is a bit confusing.

 > As a fix, add a simple extract step that copies the source file to the build
 > directory, so the patch step gets run as well.

 > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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