[Buildroot] [PATCH 03/10] kconfig infra: make update-config/defconfig handling symmetrical

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Feb 3 14:21:43 UTC 2015


From: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>

Replace a 'cp --preserve' with a 'touch --reference' so that the code
for foo-update-config and foo-update-defconfig is symmetrical to ease
maintainability and increase clarity.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. Morin" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
---
 package/pkg-kconfig.mk | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package/pkg-kconfig.mk b/package/pkg-kconfig.mk
index db56b7a..f76c7a7 100644
--- a/package/pkg-kconfig.mk
+++ b/package/pkg-kconfig.mk
@@ -78,8 +78,11 @@ $(1)-savedefconfig: $$($(2)_DIR)/.stamp_kconfig_fixup_done
 		$$($(2)_KCONFIG_OPTS) savedefconfig
 
 # Target to copy back the configuration to the source configuration file
+# Even though we could use 'cp --preserve-timestamps' here, the separate
+# cp and 'touch --reference' is used for symmetry with $(1)-update-defconfig.
 $(1)-update-config: $$($(2)_DIR)/.stamp_kconfig_fixup_done
-	cp --preserve=timestamps -f $$($(2)_DIR)/.config $$($(2)_KCONFIG_FILE)
+	cp -f $$($(2)_DIR)/.config $$($(2)_KCONFIG_FILE)
+	touch --reference $$($(2)_DIR)/.config $$($(2)_KCONFIG_FILE)
 
 # Note: make sure the timestamp of the stored configuration is not newer than
 # the .config to avoid a useless rebuild. Note that, contrary to
-- 
1.9.1




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