From: Baruch Siach Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:36:28 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Makefile: clarify comment on .br-external handling X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6e771032336f6af18997b3f9145d75301bb4da0;p=buildroot.git Makefile: clarify comment on .br-external handling The comment language may lead the reader to think that .br-external is removed whenever BR2_EXTERNAL is not set in the command line. Make it clear that BR2_EXTERNAL must be explicitly set to an empty value for .br-external to get removed. Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index ad018c88f1..5e0b4f254a 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -123,8 +123,9 @@ $(if $(BASE_DIR),, $(error output directory "$(O)" does not exist)) # On subsequent invocations of make, it is read in. It can still be overridden # on the command line, therefore the file is re-created every time make is run. # -# When BR2_EXTERNAL is not set, the .br-external file is removed and we point -# to support/dummy-external. This makes sure we can unconditionally include the +# When BR2_EXTERNAL is set to an empty value (e.g. explicitly in command +# line), the .br-external file is removed and we point to +# support/dummy-external. This makes sure we can unconditionally include the # Config.in and external.mk from the BR2_EXTERNAL directory. In this case, # override is necessary so the user can clear BR2_EXTERNAL from the command # line, but the dummy path is still used internally.