[Buildroot] [PATCH] Makefile: clarify comment on .br-external handling

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Thu Dec 25 05:36:28 UTC 2014


The comment language may lead the reader to think that .br-external is removed
whenever BR2_EXTERNAL is not set in the command line. Make it clear that
BR2_EXTERNAL must be explicitly set to an empty value for .br-external to get
removed.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
---
 Makefile | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ad018c88f12e..5e0b4f254a05 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -123,8 +123,9 @@ $(if $(BASE_DIR),, $(error output directory "$(O)" does not exist))
 # On subsequent invocations of make, it is read in. It can still be overridden
 # on the command line, therefore the file is re-created every time make is run.
 #
-# When BR2_EXTERNAL is not set, the .br-external file is removed and we point
-# to support/dummy-external. This makes sure we can unconditionally include the
+# When BR2_EXTERNAL is set to an empty value (e.g. explicitly in command
+# line), the .br-external file is removed and we point to
+# support/dummy-external. This makes sure we can unconditionally include the
 # Config.in and external.mk from the BR2_EXTERNAL directory. In this case,
 # override is necessary so the user can clear BR2_EXTERNAL from the command
 # line, but the dummy path is still used internally.
-- 
2.1.3



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