[Buildroot] Controlling dependencies for package with manual Makefile

[Yann E. MORIN]

Matthew, All,

On Thursday 08 July 2010 00:26:04 Matthew Davison wrote:
> > Is there a way to force buildroot to build package dependencies first,
> > without having to convert to an autotools compliant Makefile?
> 
> It's a bit of a kludge, but I discovered that I can just add the
> dependency package name directly into my package's target prerequisites.
> So for dependency <lib1>, I can modify my primary package target (in
> packagename.mk) to:
> packagename: lib1 <existing prerequisites go here>
>  
> This is far from ideal, but it does appear to be working.

From the docs, it seems it;s just the thing to do:
  http://buildroot.org/buildroot.html#manual-tutorial

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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