[Buildroot] Makefile.autotools.in does not work wellwith projects

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 08:53:43AM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Makefile.autotools.in does not work wellwith  
> projects
>
>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:43:09PM +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
>>> The Makefile.autotools.in uses a rule which touches a
>>> stamp_target_installed file, this does not work well with projects.
>>>
>>> The Makefile should depend on a file on the target root file system,
>>> file not there => install to target again.
>>
>> Indeed - install stamps are pure evil. They don't work with multiple
>> projects and they mean you can't "rm -rf
>> project_build_$(ARCH)/$(PROJECT)/root".
>
> I do not think that you want to have install stamps in the root file system
> because they will end up in the target (unless they are ignored when
> the rootfs is created).

I don't think you should use stamps at all - test for a target file
instead.


Hamish
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