[Buildroot] [PATCH 12/13] docs/manual: document the usage of <pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR

[Yann E. MORIN]

On 2014-02-23 22:29 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  >> +appropriate solution, because this directory is removed on +make
>  >> +clean+.
>  >> +
>  >> +Therefore, Buildroot provides a specific mechanism for this use case:
>  >> +the +<pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR+ mechanism. Buildroot reads an _override_
>  >> +file, which allows the user to tell Buildroot the location of the
>  >> +source for certain packages. By default this _override_ file is named
>  >> ++local.mk+ and located in the top directory of the Buildroot source
>  >> +tree,
> 
>  > Wrong, now it is locate in $(CONFIG_DIR), that is, the directory where
>  > we have the .config file, since:
>  >     b1e514d Config: default BR2_PACKAGE_OVERRIDE_FILE to $(CONFIG_DIR)/local.mk
> 
>  > This is Buildroot's top dir when building in-tree, and for out-of-tree
>  > builds, it's in $(O).
> 
> True, but that commit is only in next, and I imho think this series
> belongs on master, so I'll leave it for now.

Right! In fact, I was looking at my tree, which has it. It's eda3d0e on
-next.

And I agree, this series belongs to master. We'll just have to remember
it at merge time.

Sorry for the disruption.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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