[coreboot] Buildrom seems more fragile

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 16:53:19 CEST 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ward Vandewege [mailto:ward at gnu.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 7:45 AM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: 'Coreboot'
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Buildrom seems more fragile
> 
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:15:12AM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> > I don't know exactly what happened, but buildrom seems more fragile
> lately.
> >
> > I used to be able to:
> >
> > make menuconfig (select all options including a payload)
> > make
> > test it on QEMU
> > make menuconfig (select a different payload)
> > make
> > etc.
> >
> > Now I have to make clean after a payload switch.  Is this by design?
> 
> Hmm. I've always had to do a make distclean && make to make sure that
> everything went well.
> 
> I'd argue this is a bug that needs fixing :)

I think it has to do with the .stamps/ files.  Because they aren't removed
during make clean, dependencies on the stamps make the next steps continue.

I'm not sure how to include that, though.

Myles






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