[Buildroot] SVN, sources out of tree / VPATH... How?
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Tue Aug 30 16:13:53 UTC 2011
On Saturday 20 August 2011 01:10:17, Ulrich Prinz wrote:
> I want to do some development for a new platform with buildroot. But I
> work with SVN. The first steps with a plain buildroot look good, but now
> I want to make changes to some existing code in buildroot (u-boot,
> kernel). And I want to checkin these changes into my SVN.
There are patches on the mailing list to support local directories as the
source of a package. With those patches, you can extract the package source
somewhere outside the buildroot tree (under version control), and use this as
the source instead of a downloaded tar.
> The trick is, that you replicate the original mainline kernel paths in
> the other two sources and then make follows the priority of user/linux
> then bsp/kernel-x.y.z and then kernel-x.y.z/
That's actually an overlay. I think OpenEmbedded uses something like that.
Buildroot prefers to work with patches.
As an approximation of an overlay, you can write a script that automatically
generates patches out of your revision control system and dumps them in the
package directory. The package infrastructure will apply all patches that are
named <package>-<version><description>.patch.
quilt is a tool that helps to work with this approach. It's not trivial to
use, but not much more difficult than any other VCS.
Regards,
Arnout
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