Hi Folks

I have recently been running a few time into an issue with buildtool
which probably bothers not only me.

from any average buildtool.mk

SMARTMON_DIR:=smartmontools-5.36
SMARTMON_TARGET_DIR:=$(BT_BUILD_DIR)/smartmon

$(SMARTMON_DIR)/.source:
        zcat $(SMARTMON_SOURCE) | tar -xvf -
        touch $(SMARTMON_DIR)/.source

source: $(SMARTMON_DIR)/.source
.....

clean:
        make -C $(SMARTMON_DIR) clean
        rm -rf $(SMARTMON_TARGET_DIR)
        rm -f $(SMARTMON_DIR)/.build
        rm -f $(SMARTMON_DIR)/.configured


srcclean: clean
        rm -rf $(SMARTMON_DIR)
        rm -f $(SMARTMON_DIR)/.source

Now if someone just removes SMARTMON_DIR this will lead to buildtool
failures when calling buildclean or srcclean.

This is not necessary. It can be easily avoided by _not_ placing the
.source, .configured and .build flags in the respective directories.
They are not really a part of the unpacked code and IMHO should not be
tampered with.

I suggest to use

.source:
        zcat $(SMARTMON_SOURCE) | tar -xvf -
        touch .source

source: .source

instead, as already done in a few cases.

cheers

Erich

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