[Buildroot] busybox .config

ANDY KENNEDY ANDY.KENNEDY at adtran.com
Tue Aug 16 19:27:50 UTC 2011


> Ok, it seems that Mr.Murphy demands I embarrass myself in public
> once
> a week to allow me to see how things work a little bit.

Know that feeling.

> 
> I can see in buildroot/package/busybox/busybox-1.18.x.config which
> I
> believe is the default .config for busybox. Is that correct?
> 
> So, I can go "make busybox-menuconfig" and manipulate the .config
> and
> then copy my "tuned" .config to
> buildroot/package/busybox/busybox-1.18.x.config and capture the
> changes back in svn and sidestep the fact that clean removes the
> output directories?
> 
> Is this the right path for keeping track of a busybox    .config ??

What I do is to use the BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_CONFIG set to an absolute
path (using some form of $(TOP_DIR) as the basename), then copy any
changes from busybox config to that file.  This works well even if you
update busybox.

Andy



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