Some questions about building from source

[hnyman]

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Programmatically (non-interactively) configure the OpenWrt build

The easiest thing is probably to manually craft a short .config recipe for each target, and then tailor it for each OpenWrt version. The .config recipe can easily be originally based on ./scripts/diffconfig.sh output I am building several community builds with that approach. (WNDR3700 with ar71xx and ath79 , R7800 ipq806x), and privately also WRT3200ACM mvebu, and I build master and 19.07 for all of them. Pretty easy, once you get the .config recipe for master. It usually needs only slight ch…

I keep a short recipe as a separate file, edit it for modifications, and always before build copy it to be the .config and expand it with "make defconfig"