[Buildroot] Overriding DL_DIR in the environment

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:

> I keep a central download location for all tarballs,
> and find it a pain to always have to edit the DL_DIR
> variable during "make menuconfig".
>
> It would be nice to be able to override the ".config"
> value of DL_DIR in the shell environment.
>
> Here is a simple patch which will,
> if you define
>
> $ export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR /usr/local/install/downloads
>
> in your ".bashrc", override the DL_DIR in the ".config".

Wouldn't a symlink (that's what I use) sort that out?


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian