[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 2/2] Add script to build common platforms.

[David Lang]

On Fri, 27 May 2016, Ben Greear wrote:

> On 05/27/2016 02:46 AM, Karl Palsson wrote:
>> 
>> greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
>>> From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>>> 
>>> The idea is to be able to allow newbies to easily build images
>>> for common hardware. These images should be user-friendly,
>>> including luci and other tools that may aid debugging and use
>>> of the platform.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>>> ---
>>>   buildme.sh                            | 76 
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   buildme_targets/x86_64/diffconfig.txt | 26 ++++++++++++
>>>   2 files changed, 102 insertions(+)
>>>   create mode 100755 buildme.sh
>>>   create mode 100644 buildme_targets/x86_64/diffconfig.txt
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> While I've written similar scripts for helping colleagues
>> bootstrap a build, I'm not entirely convinced that adding more
>> piles of shell script to the build tree is necessarily an
>> improvement, if the goal is helping people build an image that
>> suits them.
>
> My goal is more to have an easy way to build a useful image
> that should work for most people.  Lots of people and organizations
> have their own forks and scripts, and it seems much of the changes are just
> tweaks how to the core project is built.  If we can bring some
> of this into the main tree maybe that will help everyone work
> closer to upstream code.

rather than making a bunch of scripts for specific models, how about some 
scripts that will let you build from a downloaded .config (yes, you can do this 
manually, but it could be greatly simplified)

Then people can build the latest code from a much larger set of configs, and 
tweak a config and then use it over time to build newer versions.

David Lang