config/kernel/bare-metal.in
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Fri Jan 28 22:06:49 2011 +0100 (2011-01-28)
changeset 2284 7ede374110e5
parent 890 6227df6bbb79
child 2444 896cb0d36c1a
permissions -rw-r--r--
config: add an option not to remove the destination directory

In certain circumstances, removing the destination/installation directory
is a bad idea. For example, when the build environment is already taking
care of sanitising the build tree, and pre-installs stuff in there, it is
a very bad idea to remove the destination directory.

This happens now in buildroot, as the crostool-NG backend now installs the
toolchain in the common host-tools directory, and pre-install there a few
host-utilities (eg. host-automake and host-gawk).

Provide a config knob to turn on/off the removal of the destination
directory, defaulting to 'y' (previous behavior), and forced to 'n' when
used as a backend.

Reported-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
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# Bare metal config options
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config KERNEL_bare_metal
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    select BARE_METAL
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    help
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      'Bare metal' refers to those programs that run without any kernel.
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      You probably want to say 'y' here if you plan to use your compiler
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      to build bootloaders. It is not yet suitable to build Linux kernels,
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      though, because the APCI stuff relies on the target C library headers
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      being available?!?!...