[Buildroot] force buildroot to regenerate the output/target directory tree

[Jérôme Pouiller]

Hello Francesco,

On Monday 25 February 2013 13:46:00 Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been using buildroot since some time and there is a thing I didn't
> figure out yet. Consider this situation: I have a working buildroot
> environment; I have copied into the output/target folder some stuff so that
> when I run "make" buildroot generates for me images into output/images
> which already contain the contents I manually copied.
> Now I would like to "reset" the output/target folder, i.e. obtain the
> buildroot "vanilla" output/target tree and to obtian the buildroot vanilla
> output/images.... how can I do that without doing a "make clean" (which
> requires re-compilation of all packages and takes a lot of time)?
> 
> does a "rm -rf output/target && make" works?
As Thomas said, it does not work. But, some unofficial hacks exist:

  * remove build/.root will force to reinstall skeleton

  * remove build/*/.stamp_target_installed force reinstall each target package

  * depending of you toolchain, you can reinstall libc and co by removing
      # stamps/ext-toolchain-installed (external)
      # stamps/ct-ng-toolchain-installed (ctng)
      # target/lib/libc.so.0 (buildroot)

Remind, there are ton of reasons these tips could do wrong things. The only 
current official way to rebuild target is "make clean".


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Jérôme Pouiller, Sysmic
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