Hi!
I've created a patch to busybox' build system to allow building it in
separate tree in a manner similar to kbuild from kernel version 2.6.
That is, one runs command like
'make O=/build/some/where/for/specific/target/and/options'
and everything is built in this exact directory, provided that it exists.
I understand that applyingc such invasive changes during 'release
candidates' stage of development is at best unwise. So, i'm currently
asking for comments about this patch, starting from whether such thing
is needed at all to whether it coded properly.
'make check' should work now, and one make creates Makefile in build
directory, so one can run 'make' in build directory after that.
One possible caveat is that if we build in some directory other than
source one, the source directory should be 'distclean'ed first.
egor
Hello,
the attached patch should bring extra/config in line
with the Linux 2.6.7 sources.
The following are the commit messages for the respective
files from the Linux bk-repository:
checklist.c:
* fix menuconfig choice item help display
confdata.c:
* config: choice fix
* kconfig: don't rename target dir when saving config
expr.c, expr.h:
* config: disable debug prints
mconf.c:
* fix menuconfig choice item help display
menu.c:
* Kconfig: use select statements
symbol.c:
* config: choice fix
* Avoid bogus warning about recursive dependencies
* c99 struct initialiser conversions
textbox.c:
* janitor: don't init statics to 0
util.c:
* fix lxdialog behaviour
//Peter
modified Kbuild system I put into uClibc. With this, there should be no more
need to modify Rules.mak since I've moved all the interesting options into the
config system. I think I've got everything updated, but you never know, I may
have made some mistakes, so watch closely.
-Erik
binary from modutils. This one, however, can be run on the _host_
system (need not be run on the target) and is fully cross platform, so
even if your target is ARM or powerpc or whatever, this will still
work. When used to support the new modprobe applet, this allows
busybox to fully supplant modutils for architectures supported by
busybox insmod.
-Erik
