docs/manual: document <PKG>_STRIP_COMPONENTS

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Luca Ceresoli 2015-07-11 16:15:05 +02:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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@ -303,6 +303,15 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
the package source code. Buildroot copies the contents of the
source directory into the package's build directory.
* +LIBFOO_STRIP_COMPONENTS+ is the number of leading components
(directories) that tar must strip from file names on extraction.
The tarball for most packages has one leading component named
"<pkg-name>-<pkg-version>", thus Buildroot passes
--strip-components=1 to tar to remove it.
For non-standard packages that don't have this component, or
that have more than one leading component to strip, set this
variable with the value to be passed to tar. Default: 1.
* +LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies (in terms of package
name) that are required for the current target package to
compile. These dependencies are guaranteed to be compiled and