[Buildroot] [PATCH] core/sdk: generate the SDK tarball ourselves

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:10:55 +0000, Trent Piepho wrote:

> Some ideas to avoid this:
> 1. Make tarball generation a new target instead of "sdk".
> 2. Make tarball generation the "sdk" target but add another target that
> does what "sdk" used to do.

For both (1) and (2), the proposal of Yann is to have "make sdk" do
what it does today + some new thing.

So there is nothing that prevents to continue using "make sdk" as
you're using it today, and ignore the new tarball that is generated.
I.e, the change Yann is proposing is backward compatible: "make sdk" is
still doing what it used to do.

> 3. Allow the tarball path prefix to be specified in some way, so that
> it is easier to inject into an automated process that uses the SDK. 
> E.g., it can be defined as a constant in the defconfig, or passed from
> a higher level to both buildroot when the SDK is made and to whatever
> uses the SDK.

That is another option indeed. Perhaps that makes sense, yes.

Best regards,

Thomas
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