[Buildroot] [PATCH v5 08/13] support/test-pkg: get configs from buildroot defconfigs

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 06-04-17 22:50, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 22:48:04 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
>>> On the principle, I am OK with this direction, but it is needs to be
>>> coordinated with a change to autobuild-run to also use the base
>>> autobuild defconfigs from the Buildroot tree. Otherwise, we will have
>>> two copies: one used by people running test-pkg, one used by the actual
>>> autobuilders. It is not difficult to see those two copies quickly
>>> getting out of sync.  
>>
>> I think the idea is not to sync, but to get rid of the toolchain configs
>> in autobuild-run altogether, and only use those in the Buildroot tree.
> 
> Huh, you must have misunderstood what I wrote, or it wasn't clear.
> 
> My point was precisely that we want to avoid sync'ing them. But to
> achieve that the autobuild-run script needs to be changed to use base
> toolchain configs from the Buildroot tree rather than through the
> CSV file downloaded from autobuild.b.o. And I'm exactly saying that we
> need to change the autobuild-run script at the same time as we move
> base toolchain configs in the tree, otherwise we have duplication.

 I'm working on updating autobuild-run. Unfortunately it's a bit difficult to
test changes in that script, e.g. removing the condition on BR2_STATIC_LIBS. I
basically have to wait until the script hits a glibc toolchain to see if it
works correctly. Can you think of any way to speed that up?

 Regards,
 Arnout

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