[Buildroot] [PATCH] Rebuild busybox when an external config is updated

[Danomi Manchego]

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Gustavo Zacarias
<gustavo at zacarias.com.ar> wrote:
> On 05/02/2014 10:07 AM, Michal Sojka wrote:
[SNIP]
> If you rebuild busybox without doing so for the other packages then your
> "reproducibly" goes down the drain since the "big and featured" binaries
> get overwritten by busybox (with the way busybox is installed at the
> moment) for a built project.

Ah, but that's where the busybox install script's "no clobber" feature
is useful - it won't create links on top of existing files/links.

I sent a patch [1] to the bb mailing list to add an option for this in
the bb config menu, but got no reply thus far.  In the meanwhile, I've
been using a simpler patch that just forces this feature on - it makes
"make busybox-menuconfig" much safer.

[1]  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2014-April/080786.html

Danomi -