[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] tiff: ensure directory exists before installing to it

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> I do not have a defconfig that demonstrates this.  I tend to encounter
 >> these kind of error when I do the following trick to observe what
 >> exactly is installed to the target directory:
 >> 
 >> make tiff-rebuild TARGET_DIR=$(pwd)/TIFF
 >> tree TIFF
 >> 
 >> If I hit an error, they I figure that I'm just one mostly empty custom
 >> skeleton and convoluted dependency graph away from hitting the error
 >> in real life.  So then I submit a patch.

 > Ok, thanks for the explanation. However, I'm wondering if we want to
 > support this. By doing this, you completely circumvent the preparation
 > work that is done by Buildroot: when you do make tiff-rebuild, only the
 > building and installation steps are re-executed with a different
 > TARGET_DIR. So any preparation work done before, such as directories
 > created by the global "dirs" target (on which all packages depend) will
 > not be done in your new TARGET_DIR.

 > Peter, Fabio, any opinion on this?

I don't think it is something we should really officially support, but
the specific patch is ok as such, so I will commit it.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard