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docs/manual: document the waf-package infra

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Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
[Thomas: adjust to the changes in the infra, fix typos.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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// -*- mode:doc; -*-
// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
=== Infrastructure for Waf-based packages
[[waf-package-tutorial]]
==== +waf-package+ tutorial
First, let's see how to write a +.mk+ file for a Waf-based package, with
an example :
------------------------
01: ################################################################################
02: #
03: # libfoo
04: #
05: ################################################################################
06:
07: LIBFOO_VERSION = 1.0
08: LIBFOO_SOURCE = libfoo-$(LIBFOO_VERSION).tar.gz
09: LIBFOO_SITE = http://www.foosoftware.org/download
10: LIBFOO_CONF_OPTS = --enable-bar --disable-baz
11: LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES = bar
12:
13: $(eval $(waf-package))
------------------------
On line 7, we declare the version of the package.
On line 8 and 9, we declare the name of the tarball (xz-ed tarball
recommended) and the location of the tarball on the Web. Buildroot
will automatically download the tarball from this location.
On line 10, we tell Buildroot what options to enable for libfoo.
On line 11, we tell Buildroot the depednencies of libfoo.
Finally, on line line 13, we invoke the +waf-package+
macro that generates all the Makefile rules that actually allows the
package to be built.
[[waf-package-reference]]
==== +waf-package+ reference
The main macro of the Waf package infrastructure is +waf-package+.
It is similar to the +generic-package+ macro.
Just like the generic infrastructure, the Waf infrastructure works
by defining a number of variables before calling the +waf-package+
macro.
First, all the package metadata information variables that exist in
the generic infrastructure also exist in the Waf infrastructure:
+LIBFOO_VERSION+, +LIBFOO_SOURCE+, +LIBFOO_PATCH+, +LIBFOO_SITE+,
+LIBFOO_SUBDIR+, +LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+, +LIBFOO_INSTALL_STAGING+,
+LIBFOO_INSTALL_TARGET+.
An additional variable, specific to the Waf infrastructure, can
also be defined.
* +LIBFOO_NEEDS_EXTERNAL_WAF+ can be set to +YES+ or +NO+ to tell
Buildroot to use the bundled +waf+ executable. If set to +NO+, the
default, then Buildroot will use the waf executable provided in the
package source tree; if set to +YES+, then Buidlroot will download,
install waf as a host tool and use it to build the package.

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include::adding-packages-rebar.txt[]
include::adding-packages-waf.txt[]
include::adding-packages-kernel-module.txt[]
include::adding-packages-asciidoc.txt[]