[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/pkg-meson: ensure the global cross-compilation.conf file is correct

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 10:54:13 +0100
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Needless to say, I am opposed to moving the meson file back from the
> target-finalize step :-)
> I think most of the reasoning was already mentioned in that commit,
> but it seems I did not explain that we actually have HOST_DIR mounted
> read-only on subsequent 'make' commands after the initial make,
> exactly to verify that no-one is changing directories they shouldn't
> be changing. After all, a 'make' after the initial make will only
> normally do the target-finalize step.

No, it will do staging-finalize as well. I don't think we provide the
guarantee that HOST_DIR is unchanged/read-only between each "make"
invocation, and I'm not sure why we would want to provide this
guarantee.

Thomas
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