tools/coreutils: disable uninstall target
authorMichael Pratt <mcpratt@pm.me>
Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:59:06 +0000 (15:59 -0400)
committerRobert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:38:08 +0000 (14:38 +0200)
commit5c832d783381831289c4f65d2a821a0eecfc435f
treecb0b14d0837f32b0c157ba2bf8d6f6b41cffdf3f
parent6a3cfeb4a66763630cca9cb100ec86f5fddbd79b
tools/coreutils: disable uninstall target

GNU coreutils is a unique case where we require
some of the utilities on the host machine
before anything is built.

The prerequisite is handled by symlinks to the host binaries
in the staging directory that are installed
by the build system and that are expected to remain
as long as the corresponding stampfile exists.

Because the binaries built by coreutils
will replace the symlinks, the uninstall target
will actually delete the symlinks
long before the build finishes whenever it is ran.

This can cause the utilities to be temporarily missing
from the controlled part of the shell's PATH,
so disable the removal of the coreutils utilities.
The appropriate way to clear all of the programs and links
would be `make dirclean`.

Tested-by: Georgi Valkov <gvalkov@gmail.com> # macOS
Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt <mcpratt@pm.me>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16522
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
tools/coreutils/Makefile