[Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain-external: fix potential entire root filesystem removal

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:04:03 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > When such conditions are met, Buildroot will run "rm -rf /*" due to
>  > TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR being empty.  
> 
>  > This bug does not exist in 2016.05, and appeared in 2016.08 due to
>  > commit a0aa7e0e1750f6ace2879ea8adb1425a41431b79.  
> 
> Gaah - Committed, thanks!

I hope you did some good review on it. The last patches touching this
have seen how catastrophic "apparently good looking" patches can be.

> I'll put out a 2016.08.1 release with this Saturday or Sunday. Anything
> else that should be included in this bugfix release?

Not that I can remember, though Arnout gave some suggestions already.

Thanks!

Thomas
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