Hi Philip,

On Friday 09 April 2010 07:10:22 Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
> I'm trying to bring up the net5501 and having some success, but since
> I've just been using the project since Sunday I'm a bit at the bottom of
> the learning curve.
> 
> I was wondering if there was a cheat-sheet on how to build common
> targets that might assist in doing a partial rebuild, etc.

The snapshot documentation provides some insights on how to do this, not much 
I am afraid.

> 
> Here are some targets that would be useful to have:
> 
> * print the value of a Make variable
> 
> * rebuild the .config file

rm -r tmp .config; make
will do it.

> 
> * nuke the necessary directories prior to a kernel rebuild, following a
> change to config-default or target.mk for a target or subtarget
> 
> * rebuild modules following changing the $(DEFAULT_PACKAGES) value in a
> target.mk
> 
> * rebuild the image (ext2, squashfs, jffs, etc) following rebuilding the
> kernel or any targets

This can be achieved by make target/linux/install. Even though it recompiles 
the kernel and regenerates the rootfs in a single command.

> 
> * also, is there a hook I can define to run a script that (for instance)
> runs sed on various files in /etc/config before publishing an image
> (i.e. before openwrt-x86-ext2.image.gz gets mksquashfs'd or whatever)...

No, but this should be useful.

> 
> After I get this platform solid, I've got a few more I'd like to bring up.
> 
> Thanks,
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