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

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 11:54:57 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Thomas De Schampheleire
> <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Some might, I don't, but I don't want to be carrying patches for the
> configs on all my branches either =/
>
>>> BTW, regarding the naming: eventually I'd like to include BR2_DEFCONFIG
>>>
>>> in the .config, which gets qstripped to DEFCONFIG in the Makefile. This can
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Yeah but the defconfig would have to be on the configs dir.
>
> Also, this saves the .config, not the simplified defconfig.

True. I think at that time the 'savedefconfig' option was not yet in
buildroot or at least not known to me.

Best regards,
Thomas



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