From 94e80d78cf22fd4daa047b42467638e3164874ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Perez de Castro Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:26:41 +0200 Subject: Allow adding per-package override rsync exclusions This allows using _SRCDIR_OVERRIDE_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS in local.mk to skip copying parts of source trees unneeded for building. For example, when developing WebKitGTK+, it's handy to skip copying all the tests and other build directories, which are huge: WEBKITGTK_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR = /home/aperez/WebKit WEBKITGTK_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS = \ --exclude JSTests --exclude ManualTests \ --exclude PerformanceTests --exclude WebDriverTests \ --exclude WebKitBuild --exclude WebKitLibraries \ --exclude WebKit.xcworkspace --exclude Websites \ --exclude Examples This saves a good chunk of time when rsync is used for the first time to copy the source tree over before building. Signed-off-by: Adrian Perez de Castro [Arnout: move documentation to the end of the section] Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) --- docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/manual') diff --git a/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt b/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt index 1071de5132..3389a37b39 100644 --- a/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt +++ b/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt @@ -81,3 +81,19 @@ make busybox-rebuild all the root filesystem image in +output/images+ contains the updated BusyBox. + +Source trees for big projects often contain hundreds or thousands of +files which are not needed for building, but will slow down the process +of copying the sources with _rsync_. Optionally, it is possible define ++_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS+ to skip syncing certain files +from the source tree. For example, when working on the +webkitgtk+ +package, the following will exclude the tests and in-tree builds from +a local WebKit source tree: + +------------------ +WEBKITGTK_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR = /home/bob/WebKit +WEBKITGTK_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS = \ + --exclude JSTests --exclude ManualTests --exclude PerformanceTests \ + --exclude WebDriverTests --exclude WebKitBuild --exclude WebKitLibraries \ + --exclude WebKit.xcworkspace --exclude Websites --exclude Examples +------------------ -- cgit v1.2.3