kumquat-buildroot/docs/manual/debugging-buildroot.txt

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// -*- mode:doc; -*-
// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
[[debugging-buildroot]]
manual: use one-line titles instead of two-line titles (trivial) Asciidoc supports two syntaxes for section titles: two-line titles (title plus underline consisting of a particular symbol), and one-line titles (title prefixed with a specific number of = signs). The two-line title underlines are: Level 0 (top level): ====================== Level 1: ---------------------- Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ and the one-line title prefixes: = Document Title (level 0) = == Section title (level 1) == === Section title (level 2) === ==== Section title (level 3) ==== ===== Section title (level 4) ===== The buildroot manual is currenly using the two-line titles, but this has multiple disadvantages: - asciidoc also uses some of the underline symbols for other purposes (like preformatted code, example blocks, ...), which makes it difficult to do mass replacements, such as a planned follow-up patch that needs to move all sections one level down. - it is difficult to remember which level a given underline symbol (=-~^+) corresponds to, while counting = signs is easy. This patch changes all two-level titles to one-level titles in the manual. The bulk of the change was done with the following Python script, except for the level 1 titles (-----) as these underlines are also used for literal code blocks. This patch only changes the titles, no other changes. In adding-packages-directory.txt, I did add missing newlines between some titles and their content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import mmap import re for input in sys.argv[1:]: f = open(input, 'r+') f.flush() s = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0) # Level 0 (top level): ====================== = # Level 1: ---------------------- == # Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ === # Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ==== # Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ ===== def replace_title(s, symbol, replacement): pattern = re.compile(r'(.+\n)\%s{2,}\n' % symbol, re.MULTILINE) return pattern.sub(r'%s \1' % replacement, s) new = s new = replace_title(new, '=', '=') new = replace_title(new, '+', '=====') new = replace_title(new, '^', '====') new = replace_title(new, '~', '===') #new = replace_title(new, '-', '==') s.seek(0) s.write(new) s.resize(s.tell()) s.close() f.close() ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-02 07:47:30 +02:00
== Debugging Buildroot
It is possible to instrument the steps +Buildroot+ does when building
packages. Define the variable +BR2_INSTRUMENTATION_SCRIPTS+ to contain
the path of one or more scripts (or other executables), in a
space-separated list, you want called before and after each step. The
scripts are called in sequence, with three parameters:
- +start+ or +end+ to denote the start (resp. the end) of a step;
- the name of the step about to be started, or which just ended;
- the name of the package.
For example :
----
make BR2_INSTRUMENTATION_SCRIPTS="/path/to/my/script1 /path/to/my/script2"
----
The list of steps is:
- +extract+
- +patch+
- +configure+
- +build+
- +install-host+, when a host-package is installed in +$(HOST_DIR)+
- +install-target+, when a target-package is installed in +$(TARGET_DIR)+
- +install-staging+, when a target-package is installed in +$(STAGING_DIR)+
- +install-image+, when a target-package installs files in +$(BINARIES_DIR)+
The script has access to the following variables:
- +BR2_CONFIG+: the path to the Buildroot .config file
- +HOST_DIR+, +STAGING_DIR+, +TARGET_DIR+: see
xref:generic-package-reference[]
- +BUILD_DIR+: the directory where packages are extracted and built
- +BINARIES_DIR+: the place where all binary files (aka images) are
stored
- +BASE_DIR+: the base output directory