[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] infra/pkg-kconfig: do not rebuild kconfig packages again and again

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 17:36:51 UTC 2014


Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> schreef:
>"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> schreef:
>>When a kconfig-based package executes its confiigure step, it may
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>configure
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>>overwrite it .config file. Thus, the .config file is more recent than
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>its
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>>our stamp file .stamp_kconfig_fixup_done. On a subsequent build, out
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>our
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>>dependency rules would kick in, and run the config fixup again, thus
>>kikcing in the package's configure, build and isntall steps yet once
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>kicking
>install
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>>more, that, ad libitum.
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>You mean 'ad infinitum' ?
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>>Fix that by introducing a post-configure hook that re-touches our stamp
>>file, so it is always more recent than the .config.
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>Could you share an example of which package does what type of change to the .config?

Ah, this was explained in the intro mail, maybe it should be added here too...





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