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authorGustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>2011-02-02 10:05:56 -0300
committerPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>2011-02-02 22:46:13 +0100
commita2b4f7fbbdbd491c7ed8e87ea0ff2584ab8bde81 (patch)
tree0fa1e690b2ffbdc0b9a70d483c4a0b36af4dd014
parentd1a93022868df4cab0498d08299f39fe5a03cdb4 (diff)
toolchain: introduce HOST_DIR option
Allow the user to define HOST_DIR in the config menu. This way when building an internal toolchain a separate (maybe shared) output directory may be defined and the toolchain can be used by multiple users and/or projects. Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
-rw-r--r--Config.in10
-rw-r--r--Makefile4
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 423499ae4..af26bbebb 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -72,6 +72,16 @@ config BR2_DL_DIR
The default is $(TOPDIR)/dl
+config BR2_HOST_DIR
+ string "Host dir"
+ default "$(BASE_DIR)/host"
+ help
+ Directory to store all the binary files that are built for the host.
+ This includes the cross compilation toolchain when building the
+ internal buildroot toolchain.
+
+ The default is $(BASE_DIR)/host
+
menu "Mirrors and Download locations"
config BR2_PRIMARY_SITE
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 956374082..914d2ed36 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ TAR_OPTIONS=$(call qstrip,$(BR2_TAR_OPTIONS)) -xf
GNU_TARGET_SUFFIX:=-$(call qstrip,$(BR2_GNU_TARGET_SUFFIX))
-# packages compiled for the host goes here
-HOST_DIR:=$(BASE_DIR)/host
+# packages compiled for the host go here
+HOST_DIR:=$(call qstrip,$(BR2_HOST_DIR))
# stamp (dependency) files go here
STAMP_DIR:=$(BASE_DIR)/stamps