[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/6] Add documentation for merged defconfigs

[Sam Bobroff]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 03:18:58PM +0200, Romain Naour wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
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> 
> This series has been discussed with other developers and we concluded that this
> feature is not the responsibility of Buildroot to generate a defconfig from
> partial configuration files.

Fair enough.

> Instead we recommend to use merge_config.sh from outside of Buildroot to
> generate the merged defconfig before calling make. Maybe we should add some
> documentation in the manual to explain how to use it.

That seems fine, it might even be possible to add something to
$(BR2_EXTERNAL)/external.mk to hook it directly into the Makefiles.

Could you elaborate a bit on what you mean by using merge_config.sh outside of
buildroot? Would the fragment files still be checked into buildroot somewhere
(but just not hooked into the build system) or would they be maintained outside
it?

> Best regards,
> Romain

Cheers,
Sam.