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[[make-tips]]
manual/user guide: high-level restructuring This patch performs some additional restructuring of the manual, specifically in the User Guide. In detail: - Rename 'Daily use' to 'General Buildroot usage' - Move chapters 'make tips', 'Eclipse integration', and 'Advanced usage' as sections under the 'General Buildroot usage' chapter. - Rename 'Details on Buildroot configuration' into 'Buildroot configuration' - Rework the 'Customization' section as follows: - Move the short section on debugging the external toolchain wrapper into the rest of the explanation on external toolchains. - Remove the now redundant section on toolchains, as this is already explained in much more detail in the 'Buildroot configuration' chapter. - Move the sections on busybox/uclibc/kernel configuration from chapter 'Customization' into a separate chapter 'Configuration of other components'. - Rename the remaining part of the original 'Customization' chapter into 'Project-specific customization' and fold it together with the next chapter 'Storing the configuration' - Remove the chapter 'Going further in Buildroot innards' thanks to: - Moving the chapter 'How Buildroot works' to the Developer guide. - Moving the 'Advanced Buildroot usage' section to the 'General Buildroot usage' chapter. - Remove the chapter 'Hacking Buildroot' by: - Adding a reference to adding packages to the 'Project-specific customizations' chapter - Leaving out the explicit reference to creating board support, as this is part of the previous chapter already, so an extra reference is redundant. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-08-19 21:41:47 +02:00
=== 'make' tips
This is a collection of tips that help you make the most of Buildroot.
.Display all commands executed by make:
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$ make V=1 <target>
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.Display the list of boards with a defconfig:
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$ make list-defconfigs
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.Display all available targets:
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$ make help
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Not all targets are always available,
some settings in the +.config+ file may hide some targets:
* +busybox-menuconfig+ only works when +busybox+ is enabled;
* +linux-menuconfig+ and +linux-savedefconfig+ only work when
+linux+ is enabled;
* +uclibc-menuconfig+ is only available when the uClibc C library is
selected in the internal toolchain backend;
* +barebox-menuconfig+ and +barebox-savedefconfig+ only work when the
+barebox+ bootloader is enabled.
* +uboot-menuconfig+ and +uboot-savedefconfig+ only work when the
+U-Boot+ bootloader is enabled.
.Cleaning:
Explicit cleaning is required when any of the architecture or toolchain
configuration options are changed.
To delete all build products (including build directories, host, staging
and target trees, the images and the toolchain):
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$ make clean
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.Generating the manual:
The present manual sources are located in the 'docs/manual' directory.
To generate the manual:
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$ make manual-clean
$ make manual
---------------------------------
The manual outputs will be generated in 'output/docs/manual'.
.Notes
- A few tools are required to build the documentation (see:
xref:requirement-optional[]).
.Resetting Buildroot for a new target:
To delete all build products as well as the configuration:
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$ make distclean
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.Notes
If +ccache+ is enabled, running +make clean+ or +distclean+ does
not empty the compiler cache used by Buildroot. To delete it, refer
to xref:ccache[].
core: enhance printvars Currently, the output of printvars copntains the name of the variable, its expanded value and its un-expanded value. However, most of the time, we need the actual, expanded value, so it can be re-used from a (non-Buildroot) infrastructure script, like a post-build script, or a build-farm driver (e.g. a Jenkins job...) Add two options that a user may set to change the output of printvars: - QUOTED_VARS, if set, will quote the value - RAW_VARS, if set, will print the unexpanded value The new output by default only prints the expanded value now. So that it can be used as such: $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION BUSYBOX_VERSION=1.26.2 $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES QUOTED_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES='ncurses util-linux' $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES RAW_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES)) And it is even possible to directly evaluate it in a shell script: eval $(make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION QUOTED_VARS=YES) Backward compatibility of the output is not maintained. It is believed that scripts that depended on the previous output were very fragile to begin with, because they had to filter the non-formatted output (splitting on spaces or braces was not really possible, because values could contain either). Document printvars and its options in the manual; list it in the output of 'make help'. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-29 11:43:05 +02:00
.Dumping the internal make variables:
One can dump the variables known to make, along with their values:
core: enhance printvars Currently, the output of printvars copntains the name of the variable, its expanded value and its un-expanded value. However, most of the time, we need the actual, expanded value, so it can be re-used from a (non-Buildroot) infrastructure script, like a post-build script, or a build-farm driver (e.g. a Jenkins job...) Add two options that a user may set to change the output of printvars: - QUOTED_VARS, if set, will quote the value - RAW_VARS, if set, will print the unexpanded value The new output by default only prints the expanded value now. So that it can be used as such: $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION BUSYBOX_VERSION=1.26.2 $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES QUOTED_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES='ncurses util-linux' $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES RAW_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES)) And it is even possible to directly evaluate it in a shell script: eval $(make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION QUOTED_VARS=YES) Backward compatibility of the output is not maintained. It is believed that scripts that depended on the previous output were very fragile to begin with, because they had to filter the non-formatted output (splitting on spaces or braces was not really possible, because values could contain either). Document printvars and its options in the manual; list it in the output of 'make help'. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-29 11:43:05 +02:00
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$ make -s printvars VARS='VARIABLE1 VARIABLE2'
VARIABLE1=value_of_variable
VARIABLE2=value_of_variable
core: enhance printvars Currently, the output of printvars copntains the name of the variable, its expanded value and its un-expanded value. However, most of the time, we need the actual, expanded value, so it can be re-used from a (non-Buildroot) infrastructure script, like a post-build script, or a build-farm driver (e.g. a Jenkins job...) Add two options that a user may set to change the output of printvars: - QUOTED_VARS, if set, will quote the value - RAW_VARS, if set, will print the unexpanded value The new output by default only prints the expanded value now. So that it can be used as such: $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION BUSYBOX_VERSION=1.26.2 $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES QUOTED_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES='ncurses util-linux' $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES RAW_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES)) And it is even possible to directly evaluate it in a shell script: eval $(make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION QUOTED_VARS=YES) Backward compatibility of the output is not maintained. It is believed that scripts that depended on the previous output were very fragile to begin with, because they had to filter the non-formatted output (splitting on spaces or braces was not really possible, because values could contain either). Document printvars and its options in the manual; list it in the output of 'make help'. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-29 11:43:05 +02:00
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It is possible to tweak the output using some variables:
- +VARS+ will limit the listing to variables which names match the
specified make-patterns - this must be set else nothing is printed
core: enhance printvars Currently, the output of printvars copntains the name of the variable, its expanded value and its un-expanded value. However, most of the time, we need the actual, expanded value, so it can be re-used from a (non-Buildroot) infrastructure script, like a post-build script, or a build-farm driver (e.g. a Jenkins job...) Add two options that a user may set to change the output of printvars: - QUOTED_VARS, if set, will quote the value - RAW_VARS, if set, will print the unexpanded value The new output by default only prints the expanded value now. So that it can be used as such: $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION BUSYBOX_VERSION=1.26.2 $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES QUOTED_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES='ncurses util-linux' $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES RAW_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES)) And it is even possible to directly evaluate it in a shell script: eval $(make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION QUOTED_VARS=YES) Backward compatibility of the output is not maintained. It is believed that scripts that depended on the previous output were very fragile to begin with, because they had to filter the non-formatted output (splitting on spaces or braces was not really possible, because values could contain either). Document printvars and its options in the manual; list it in the output of 'make help'. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-29 11:43:05 +02:00
- +QUOTED_VARS+, if set to +YES+, will single-quote the value
- +RAW_VARS+, if set to +YES+, will print the unexpanded value
For example:
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$ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_%DEPENDENCIES
BUSYBOX_DEPENDENCIES=skeleton toolchain
BUSYBOX_FINAL_ALL_DEPENDENCIES=skeleton toolchain
BUSYBOX_FINAL_DEPENDENCIES=skeleton toolchain
BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=
BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES=ncurses util-linux
----
----
$ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_%DEPENDENCIES QUOTED_VARS=YES
BUSYBOX_DEPENDENCIES='skeleton toolchain'
BUSYBOX_FINAL_ALL_DEPENDENCIES='skeleton toolchain'
BUSYBOX_FINAL_DEPENDENCIES='skeleton toolchain'
BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=''
BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES='ncurses util-linux'
----
----
$ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_%DEPENDENCIES RAW_VARS=YES
BUSYBOX_DEPENDENCIES=skeleton toolchain
BUSYBOX_FINAL_ALL_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_FINAL_DEPENDENCIES) $(BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES))
BUSYBOX_FINAL_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_DEPENDENCIES))
BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES))
BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES=ncurses util-linux
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The output of quoted variables can be reused in shell scripts, for example:
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$ eval $(make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_DEPENDENCIES QUOTED_VARS=YES)
$ echo $BUSYBOX_DEPENDENCIES
skeleton toolchain
----