[Buildroot] [PATCH] Complain loudly if BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR does not exit

[Maxime Hadjinlian]

Hi Arnout, Michal, Yann, all,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 22/10/14 13:54, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
>> Other question, why don't put that bit of code at the beginning of the
>> target stamp_patched ? Or at least in the target stamp_patched ?
>
>  Because we prefer to have checks for the validity of the .config immediately,
> before the build is started. Even a 'make savedefconfig' or 'make graph-depends'
> will trigger the error. For this particular one it is not so important, but for
> other checks it is really useful to have it before the build begins and not
> after half an hour of building.
Understood. Thanks for clearing that up.
>
>  Note that this is currently not always the case, e.g. dependencies.sh, external
> toolchain validity. But if possible, I prefer .config checks to be done in make.
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
>
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