[Buildroot] [Bug 8771] make savedefconfig modifies sources

Tue Mar 8 17:38:05 UTC 2016

On 03/08/16 18:01, Steve Calfee wrote:
> Personally I find the maintenance of output/.br_external as more
> bizarre and confusing. It does allow me to not have to remember to set
> BR2_EXTERNAL when make is invoked, but it gets cleaned on make clean.

  That _is_ a bug IMHO. output/.br_external shouldn't be removed on 'make 
clean'. However, AFAICS it shouldn't be cleaned, only by distclean, and there it 
is appropriate of course.

  Regards,
  Arnout

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