We discourage the addition of custom target skeleton into the official
Buildroot tree, so let's not encourage users to do this in the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Reword the documentation on external toolchain to take into account
the new features added since 2010.11 concerning external toolchain
profiles.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
We only have one Linux kernel package, and "linux26-" is an anachronism
in today's world. So add useful "linux-%" shortcuts to the "linux26-%".
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* ccache is now a normal package (both for the host and the target).
* ccache option is now part of the "Build options" menu. It will
automatically build ccache for the host before building anything,
and will use it to cache builds for both host compilations and
target compilations.
* bump ccache to 3.1.3
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The configuration cache shared between packages, while being in
principle a nice idea to speed-up the configuration of packages by
avoiding repetitive identical checks, turned out to be unreliable due
to the subtle differences between similar but not identical checks in
different packages. After spending some time trying to fix those, we
concluded that supporting the shared configuration cache is definitely
too hard and too unreliable, and that we'd better get rid of it
altogether.
This patch therefore removes the shared configuration cache
infrastructure and usage.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The current DocType declaration was incorrect. It is neither xhtml strict nor
xhtml transitional. So, instead of dealing with that issue, converted it to
validated Html5.
Fixed white-space errors.
Removed validator html4.01 code.
Color corrected the code sections.
Removed redundant or useless html code.
Changed foo to libfoo, for consistency.
Changed page bookmarking to use header id's.
Re-flowed paragraphs to line break at 80 characters.
Re-formatted the code sections for consistency and correctness.
Kept all list items, headings, and href's on a single line (where possible).
Signed-off-by: Martin Banky <Martin.Banky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The current DocType declaration was incorrect. It is neither xhtml strict nor
xhtml transitional. So, instead of dealing with that issue, converted it to
validated Html5.
Fixed white-space errors.
Removed validator html4.01 code.
Color corrected the code sections.
Removed redundant or useless html code.
Changed foo to libfoo, for consistency.
Changed page bookmarking to use header id's.
Re-flowed paragraphs to line break at 80 characters.
Re-formatted the code sections for consistency and correctness.
Kept all list items, headings, and href's on a single line (where possible).
Signed-off-by: Martin Banky <Martin.Banky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Fixed indents, and removed redundent specifers and trailing spaces.
Signed-off-by: Martin Banky <Martin.Banky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
- We have gconfig as well nowadays
- Variables like BUILDROOT_DL_DIR can also be set permanently in the
environment, and not just passed to make every time.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Remove alpha channel and limit number of colors used. This gets the images
down to ~37% of their previous size without any visual degrading (in fact
it now looks correctly on ancient IE versions with broken png alpha
handling).
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Fixed spelling error in Documentation buildroot.html#gettext-integration
GETTEXT instead of GNUTTEXT
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Support the GTK variant of the graphical kconfig configurator as an
alternative to the Qt3-based one.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Document the new generic package infrastructure, and how target/host
packages are handled, both for the generic package infrastructure and
the autotools package infrastructure.
This documentation replaces the documentation that used to be present
at the top of Makefile.autotools.in. Both tutorial and reference
documentation are provided.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This wasn't menitioned in the documentation as noticed by
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Reported by Gordon Smith on the ml.
The mailing list archives are accessed through lists.busybox.net since
the move to osuosl. Adapt the google search box to match.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
A lot of people complain that the root filesystem generated by
Buildroot doesn't work because it lacks the device files. This is
because they use output/target/ instead of one of the images.
Therefore, insist in the documentation on this point. Even though I'm
unsure if users really read the documentation :-)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Invert the BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_HIDE_OTHERS option to use positive logic,
renaming it to _SHOW_OTHERS.
Positive logic is simpler to understand, and it makes all{,package}config
do the right thing.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
As discussed earlier on the mailing list. It simplifies code, gives more
sensible error message on typos and makes the defconfigs easier to find
for users.
Furthermore, update documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* Remove the huge section describing the design of the removed
"project" feature
* Update all references to the output directory hierarchy to match
the new one
* Add new sections on how to rebuild single packages and how to
create board support
* Other updates, clarifications, reorganizations
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
