[asterisk-users] Method for scripting options specified in make menuconfig

[James FitzGibbon]

On 8/9/07, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
>
> > After you run make menuselect, you'll have a file  'menuselect.makeopts'
> in
> > your asterisk source dir.  Copy that to /etc/asterisk.makeopts (or
> > ~/.asterisk.makeopts) and it will be used for future builds.  Once
> you've
> > copied the file over, do a 'make distclean ; ./configure ; make' to
> check
> > that it worked.
>
> Hmmm.... why "distclean" ?
>

'clean' doesn't remove the generated menuselect.makeopts:

clean: $(SUBDIRS_CLEAN)
        rm -f defaults.h
        rm -f include/asterisk/build.h
        rm -f include/asterisk/version.h
        @$(MAKE) -C menuselect clean
        cp -f .cleancount .lastclean

distclean: clean
        @$(MAKE) -C menuselect dist-clean
        @$(MAKE) -C sounds dist-clean
        rm -f menuselect.makeopts makeopts menuselect-tree
menuselect.makedeps
        rm -f makeopts.embed_rules
        rm -f config.log config.status
        rm -rf autom4te.cache
        rm -f include/asterisk/autoconfig.h
        rm -f include/asterisk/buildopts.h
        rm -rf doc/api
        rm -f build_tools/menuselect-deps

So if you go through this cycle:

untar
./configure
make menuselect
...make module choices...
cp menuselect.makeopts /etc/asterisk.makeopts
make clean
./configure

Then the automated run of menuselect is going to have two makeopts files
that it might pull from: the generated one left over from the first run of
configure, and the one in /etc.  But since the files should be identical,
you won't be absolutely sure that your file in /etc is the one driving the
module choices.

If you changed "cp menuselect.makeopts..." to "mv menuselect.makeopts..." in
the above snippet, then I suppose 'make clean' would suffice.  But 'make
distclean' doesn't do any harm - it should return the directory to it's
post-untar state, right?

-- 
j.
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