[Buildroot] Several issues with building multiple "projects" for same architecture

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:55:49AM -0500, Jonathan Nalley wrote:
>I am using the buildroot to build for several different boards, some of them
>have the same CPU architecture (PPC405GP/EP).  I have noticed some issues
>with the "project" concept in the buildroot.  Since the builds are for the
>same architecture the toolchain is created under "build_powerpc".
>Everything works fine for the first board, but for subsequent builds for
>different "project" names things are missing under
>"project_build_powerpc/PROJECT_NAME/root".  Specifically:
>
>/root/lib/libgcc_s.so
>/root/usr/lib/libstdc++.so
>/root/usr/sbin/ethtool
>
>This is because the make files that install those files check for:
>
>$(GCC_BUILD_DIR2)/.libs_installed
>
>and
>
>$(ETHTOOL_DIR)/.installed

I've fixed at least the ethtool case several weeks ago in
f93f6bf4f9ae7c8c248fba2fc72ab42325975b63

As you can see, the project idea was never really integrated properly
:-/