[Buildroot] [PATCH] build: add 'file' option for 'make defconfig'

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 February 2012 13:44:03 Felipe Contreras wrote:
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>> > If one creates a defconfig file, why not store it in 'configs' ?
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>> Because it's personal.
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>> I want to be able to clone buildroot, and 'make defconfig
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>> file=/media/drive/notes/my-buildroot-config'.
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>
> Same here.

Ok, I see. I have been used to having my own repository for buildroot
and didn't think of people who just download a tarball each time.

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> BTW, regarding the naming: eventually I'd like to include BR2_DEFCONFIG
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> in the .config, which gets qstripped to DEFCONFIG in the Makefile. This can
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> be used to be able to store the config again, similar to
> linux-update-defconfig.

I once proposed a patch that did something similar:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-February/041626.html

It would automatically save the last used 'defconfig' instead of
requiring an explicit 'file' option.


Being able to do 'make savedefconfig file=...' would also be nice.

Best regards,
Thomas