[Buildroot] Remove clean and uninstall targets [was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add (Freescale) elftosb host package]

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Mar 15 21:32:23 UTC 2012


On Thursday 15 March 2012 22:28:13 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Or, better, you can do:
> 
>         make <pkg>-rebuild
> 
> Why would you need to do a 'make clean'? If you did some changes in the
> package source code, running 'make' is sufficient to get things
> rebuilt, unless the package has a broken build system, no?

 For instance, modifying a Makefile to add a '-DFOO' to CFLAGS usually
doesn't force recompilation of all C files.

 But as I said, it's really a corner case.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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