[Buildroot] [RFC] *clean targets
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Fri Oct 9 11:28:04 UTC 2009
>>>>> "Bernhard" == Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com> writes:
Hi,
>> * On the clean target
>>
>> I see that all the stamps are removed. So this will trigger
>> basically a reconfigure + rebuild of all packages. Is this what we
>> want ?
Bernhard> yes, this is what i as a user would expect.
Bernhard> Something broke, i have to rebuild stuff, so i
Bernhard> make clean ; make
So in other words, we should just have clean and distclean, where the
only difference between those two is that clean doesn't delete your
.config?
>> Same question as before: is removing the target/ directory without
>> removing the staging/ directory really safe ?
>>
>> Removing $(IMAGE) will not do anything, since $(IMAGE) is the prefix
>> for the filesystem images. I.e, the tar image is $(IMAGE).tar.
Bernhard> the IMAGE was there already. Ask Ulf what it was ment to be.
Ok, but lets really fix up stuff now that we're changing these things.
>> Shouldn't we just remove $(BINARIES_DIR) ?
Bernhard> works for me, but they have to be regenerated anyway, so not
Bernhard> much point, i'd say.
They should imho get removed so the user doesn't get confused if the
build fails, but they still see (old) binaries in BINARIES_DIR.
But ok, moot point if we make clean remove everything.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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