[Buildroot] [v3, 3/4] barebox: user selection of build output images

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Sun Mar 6 23:03:07 UTC 2016


On 03/02/16 22:40, Pieter Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 07:18:19PM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>> On 03/02/16 08:54, Pieter Smith wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 12:14:15AM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>>>> On 02/29/16 09:38, Pieter Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ACK. Done. I solved this with the above default and help text pointing the user
>>>>> to use 'barebox.bin' for older versions. I'm just waiting for Yegor, and then
>>>>> I'll repost.
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now a user-friendly warning is generated if an old config is used and
>>>>> this config item has not yet been set. 
>>>>
>>>>  If you give it a default value, it _will_ be set for old configs.
>>>
>>> If the user remembers to run defconfig. If he doesn't, the error is quite vague.
>>
>>  When you update buildroot and run 'make', there should be an implicit run of
>> 'make oldconfig', which will update all the automatic symbols and ask for any
>> new ones. TBH I don't completely understand how it works, but it happens like
>> that for me.
> 
> I was troubleshooting with `make barebox-2`, which doesn't perform an
> auto-defconfig. The error was unintelligible because some variables were
> resolving to empty strings. I therefore added a check which offers a similar
> prompt to what is currently done at the end of barebox.mk.
> 
> If nobody has a serious gripe with this, I would prefer to keep the check.

 OK no problem.

 Thanks,

 Regards,
 Arnout


> 
> [snip]
> 
> - Pieter
> 


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