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manual: add documentation about DL_DIR

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And at the same time don't encourage use of BR2_DL_DIR

Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Maxime Hadjinlian 2017-07-04 11:40:38 +02:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
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@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
the file using this URL. Otherwise, Buildroot will assume the file
to be downloaded is located at +LIBFOO_SITE+. Buildroot will not do
anything with those additional files, except download them: it will
be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(BR2_DL_DIR)+.
be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(DL_DIR)+.
* +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ determines the method used to fetch or copy the
package source code. In many cases, Buildroot guesses the method
@ -537,6 +537,9 @@ In the action definitions, you can use the following variables:
* +$(@D)+, which contains the directory in which the package source
code has been uncompressed.
* +$(DL_DIR)+ contains the path to the directory where all the downloads made
by Buildroot are stored.
* +$(TARGET_CC)+, +$(TARGET_LD)+, etc. to get the target
cross-compilation utilities