[Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-infra: limit -reconfigure and -rebuild actions

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:31:36 +0200,
Richard Braun <rbraun at sceen.net> a écrit :

> To clarify my point of view: the intended behaviour is obvious, and
> I assumed the original author knew what he wanted when these targets
> were added.

Actually, the original author was me :-)

See 4ed4e5016b741341059ed826416dad3291df0b2c.

> But my use cases are rather the following: I am making
> modifications to the source code of a package, and I want to easily use
> the environment provided by buildroot (the toolchain, the staging
> directory and the target optimizations, maybe others). If it fails, it
> will stop in either case. But if it succeeds, I want to easily check the
> output and make sure the build process produced the expected results
> (I mostly check compiler warnings, sometimes the generated code). If I
> am confident in the results, I just add && make (which is short and
> simple enough) to get the current behaviour.
> 
> I usually use buildroot with two flavors of configuration: a production
> one, and a developer one (with debugging symbols, target debugging tools
> such as valgrind, sometimes -O0 executables). This can result in huge
> images, so getting to that step while the build of the package I'm
> working on didn't reach a state I can confidently validate doesn't make
> sense. And when it does (and even if it doesn't), simply adding
> "&& make" does the job.

It does make some sense, but I'd like to see the opinion of others.

However, I don't agree with the change you did on -reconfigure that
would only to the configure step. If -rebuild does build+install, then
-reconfigure should do configure+build+install.

Thomas
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