[Buildroot] [PATCH] change default location for local.mk to $(CONFIG_DIR)

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 03/12/13 09:12, Jeremy Rosen wrote:
>> Dear Jérémy Rosen,
>>
>> On Thu,  7 Mar 2013 11:49:23 +0100, Jérémy Rosen wrote:
>>> the previous default of $(TOPDIR) broke the philosophy of builds
>>> with O=
>>> which try to keep all configuration files within the $(CONFIG_DIR)
>>> subtree
>>
>> Hum, that's an interesting vision of things. I think I would tend to
>> agree with this idea.
>>
>> What do others think?
>>
>
> A bit of context :
>
> I am trying to keep my buildroot project in git, but I am trying to
> cleanly separate "changes made to git" and "changes due to my project.
>
> that basically means that all config file needs to be out of the
> buildroot/ subdirectory to be able to easily generate patches against
> mainline and still keep my changes in git. I do that using git-subtree
>
> I also change the location of the kernel config file for the same reason
> and would do that for ctng and busybox if I needed to change them from
> their default config

  But $(CONFIG_DIR) is not a good location then... $(CONFIG_DIR) is 
$(TOPDIR) if doing in-tree build, and $(O) if doing out-of-tree build. 
When you delete your out-of-tree dir, local.mk will also be gone...

  I also don't really like the idea that with a defconfig, the build 
result will be different when you change the O= command line parameter.


  Regards,
  Arnout


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