[OpenWrt-Users] is there a "make allpackages"?

[RB]

> it might help if i better understood the entire make infrastructure.
>  i can *sort of* see what's going on -- is there a doc somewhere that
>  explains the Makefile structure in detail?  thanks.

If you find one, let me know.  All I know on this project's build
structure has been learned by a lot of [failed] experimentation and
reading source.  Presuming the devs don't read this ML much, you may
be able to ask this question on the -dev ML and get more of a
response.

For example: I've found that, for whatever reason I haven't bothered
to work out yet, setting the "Select all packages by default" only
works very well if you haven't done much configuration (I run 'make
distclean' first, typically).  Similar to busybox, a large portion of
the make system seems to have been lifted from the kernel, with the
associated quirks and pitfalls, as well as the same concept of
'built-in' functionality versus modules.

Really, if you're familiar with manual kernel configuration and
compilation and its concept of modularity, this should translate
easily.