On Sun, 5 Oct 2014, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> > also, while in "make menuconfig", i noticed under "Global build
> > settings" the entry "Select all packages by default", but i have
> > no idea what that means and there's no help info for that.
>
> It will select any yet undefined package symbol as =m - this is mostly
> useful for whole distribution builds - usually used in a way like that:
>
> echo CONFIG_<target>=y > .config
> echo CONFIG_ALL=y >> .config
> make defconfig
>
> > does it mean that even unselected packages will be treated as if
> > they were selected with "=m"? or what? some help info there would be
> > handy.
>
> It means that package symbols not yet defined in .config will be
> selected as =m. Stuff already present as "# CONFIG_PACKAGE_foo is not
> set" will not be promoted to =m.
ah, that's useful to know. most importantly for me, that
configuration option won't affect the final bootable image.
rday
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