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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5030

Summary: busybox built fails if we use an override src dir
BUSYBOX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR and that dir does not contain .config
Product: buildroot
Version: 2012.02
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: Other
AssignedTo: unassigned at buildroot.uclibc.org
ReportedBy: korkakak at gmail.com
CC: buildroot at uclibc.org
Estimated Hours: 0.0

when one tries to make busybox this fails because the BUSYBOX_POST_EXTRACT_HOOKS are not run (we rsync from another directory).

The solution to that I've came up with is to either change the BUSYBOX_POST_EXTRACT_HOOKS to BUSYBOX_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS or add another hook BUSYBOX_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += BUSYBOX_COPY_CONFIG

(the worst case scenario with the two hooks will be to copy the same file twice)

the proposed solution is the following:

package/busybox/busybox.mk +1 -1
index d18b6d0..17e8b7e 100644
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ define BUSYBOX_INSTALL_LOGGING_SCRIPT
 endef
 
 # We do this here to avoid busting a modified .config in configure
-BUSYBOX_POST_EXTRACT_HOOKS += BUSYBOX_COPY_CONFIG
+BUSYBOX_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += BUSYBOX_COPY_CONFIG
 
 define BUSYBOX_CONFIGURE_CMDS
        $(BUSYBOX_SET_LARGEFILE)
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[Buildroot] [Bug 5030] busybox built fails if we use an override src dir BUSYBOX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR and that dir does not contain .config

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5030

--- Comment #1 from Thomas De Schampheleire <[email protected]> 2014-02-08 21:24:30 UTC --- A question to buildroot developers: what do we do with this patch? The
different components using .config files all handle it differently:

busybox copies its .config from the post-extract hook. linux copies its .config in the configure_cmds. uclibc copies its .config from the post-patch hook.

The busybox behavior allows a user to change .config, then re-run the configure step and keep the user's changes.
For linux this is not true: if you change your config and re-run the configure step, your changes are lost. If you change your .config and expect to keep the changes, you can only rebuild, not reconfigure.

This patch proposes to line-up busybox more with how the linux kernel handles it.

This raises the question: what do we want, what should the behavior be?

Personally, I haven't had a big problem with the linux way, and thus would accept the principle of this patch. But I don't have a very strong opinion on this...

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[Buildroot] [Bug 5030] busybox built fails if we use an override src dir BUSYBOX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR and that dir does not contain .config

In reply to bugzilla at busybox.net

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5030

Thomas De Schampheleire <[email protected]> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #2 from Thomas De Schampheleire <[email protected]> 2014-02-20 08:17:22 UTC --- This bug has been fixed with commit
http://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=eedfc7121cf5b9a8dee8546c85b3bd36e9a743a4

Thanks for reporting!

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