The last architecture-specific patch we had was removed 2015-02-14 with
commit 9863553fe8 (packages: all salute the passing of avr32), where
we eventually got rid of the avr32-specific patch for fbv.
Since then, we've only had common patches (that apply systematically),
or conditional patches, that are applied in an ad-hoc manner with
post-patch hooks. Currently, we even only have one such patch (for
Linux).
Since we do not advertise that possibility in the manual, and since we
do not want to have such patches, drop the support for it.
This has the potential for breaking existing br2-external trees, but
there is a workaround for those: they can provide a pre-patch ook that
copies the necessary per-arch patches if needed. We document this in the
manual.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
The buildroot-association repository used to be hosted on Github, then
was closed for some banking issues. We're now making it public again,
but on Gitlab like the rest of Buildroot.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Now that the snapshot tarball section is gone, the "Source code" block
has only one sub-block "Repository" which makes it look odd. So bring
the sub-block content into the parent block, and rename this parent
block "Git repository".
As this requires re-indenting the whole HTML soup, take advantage of
this to use <p>...</p> in a more correct manner.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: fix "git pull" layout]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
In a Git era, those snapshot tarballs are no longer relevant, so drop
it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
We're now using Gitlab as our official Git repository, so let's update
the website accordingly. Gitlab only provides https:// access, so drop
the explanation about the Git native protocol being more efficient
than HTTP (also because that's no longer true).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
by using this standard extension `adoc`,
these files are rendered on gitlab & github
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Sometimes it happens that a Company or a Physical Person sponsors the
creation and/or the upstreaming process of a patch, but at the moment
there is no way to give credits to it. In Linux they prepend '+sponsor'
to the e-mail of the contributor in both authorship and commit log tag as
discussed here[0]. So let's describe in the manual how to do that as a
standard.
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20230817220957.41582-1-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com/
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- reword to reference sub-addressing and the RFC
- move to the "submitting patches" section, that already deals with
SoB tags
- differentiate between Your/Their names
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Commit 7dd27cbe5b (support/download: add support to exclude svn
externals) introduced an improperly formatted list item. That was
carried over with bf2d7f8f53 (package/pkg-generic: don't download svn
externals by default).
Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Commit 7dd27cbe5b (support/download: add support to exclude svn
externals) departed from the usual opt-in scheme, like is done for
git submodule or large files, in an attempt to keep the previous
behaviour unchanged, that is to download externals by default.
As an afterthought, we've concluded that the chances for svn-hosted
packages with externals that are indeed required to do the build,
are relatively slim. For those cases, it even makes sense to explicitly
requested the use of the externals.
So, we change the default to not download svn externals.
Since the generated archives may change, we bump the version suffix.
This will allow users to more easily catch the situation and decide if
they really need the externals or not.
We have a single in-tree package that uses svn, and it does not use
externals, so the generated archive does not change, and we just need
to update the archive filename in the hash file.
Finally, we add a new section to the manual, in the chapter about
migrating Buildroot to a newer version.
Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Like git which can have submodules, subversion can have externals. The
default behaviour for subversion is to retrieve all the externals,
unless told otherwise.
For some repositories, the externals may be huge (e.g. a dataset or some
assets) and may not be required for building the package. In such a
case, retrieving the externals is both a waste of network bandwitdh and
time, and a waste of disk storage.
Like for git submodules and git lfs, add an option that packages can set
to specify whether they want externals or not.
Since we've so far been retrieving externals, we keep that the default,
and packages can opt-out (rather than the opt-in for git submodules or
git lfs).
We must only set it when the package is actually hosted on svn, to avoid
passing -r when the package is not hosted by svn; otherwise, -r would
also be passed e.g. to a git-hosted package, triggering the download of
git submodules even when they are not requested. We need to do so,
because we have a default value, which we usually do not have in other
download options.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cmake supports multiple generators. For now, Buildroot only uses the
venerable "GNU Makefile" generator, which generates Makefiles as the
build backend.
Cmake also has support for Ninja as a build backend, and provides the
corresponding generator. Ninja is a small build system with a focus on
speed. It is mainly used with the meson build system, but also cmake has
very good support for it.
Packages that are selecting Ninja (or over time another generator),
should also use the _BUILD_{ENV,OPTS} variables instead of the _MAKE
variables.
No _INSTALL{,_STAGING,_TARGET}_OPTS used so far, so reuse as cmake install opts:
$ grep '_INSTALL_OPTS' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')
$ grep '_INSTALL_STAGING_OPTS' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')
$ grep '_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')
The _MAKE_{ENV,OPTS} are copied to _BUILD_{ENV,OPTS}, involved packages:
$ grep '_MAKE_ENV =' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')
package/netopeer2/netopeer2.mk:NETOPEER2_MAKE_ENV = \
package/racehound/racehound.mk:RACEHOUND_MAKE_ENV = $(LINUX_MAKE_FLAGS)
(qt6, webkitgtk, and wpewebkit also match, but already use -Gninja)
$ grep '_MAKE_OPTS =' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')
package/mariadb/mariadb.mk:HOST_MARIADB_MAKE_OPTS = import_executables
package/zeek/zeek.mk:HOST_ZEEK_MAKE_OPTS = binpac bifcl
Only "musepack" seems to overwrite MAKE to enforce -j1, so replace it:
$ grep '_MAKE =' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')
package/musepack/musepack.mk:MUSEPACK_MAKE = $(MAKE1)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Devoogdt <thomas.devoogdt@barco.com>
Reviewed-by: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- switch to FOO_CMAKE_BACKEND = (make|ninja)
- use firstword of $(MAKE), not $(BR2_MAKE)
- explain why we use firstword of $(MAKE)
- update manual with the three new variables
- yweak commit log
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thierry GUIBERT <thierry.guibert@croix-rouge.fr>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: split off the previous patch by Thierry]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Add a paragraph and an example about using the Buildroot image registry
hosted on gtilab.com, for people who want to build their own image based
on the offical one.
Signed-off-by: Thierry GUIBERT <thierry.guibert@croix-rouge.fr>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Previously, the documentation only requested links to upstream commits
when backporting patches.
Based on a mailing list discussion [0], patches should, when possible
and when approriate, provide a link as evidence that the patch has been
submitted upstream.
The motivation is that hopefully the patch gets applied to upstream at
some point reducing the long term maintenance burden within Buildroot.
This also makes future patch review on subsequent package version bumps
more streamlined.
For patches that are unique to BR and do not apply to the upstream
repository, patches should have a comment explaining why they do not
apply upstream.
[0] https://lists.buildroot.org/pipermail/buildroot/2023-March/666000.html
Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
For some documents, we may want a terse or deeper TOC depth. For
example, short documents may want just the level-0 in the TOC, while
longer documents may want depth 1 or 2, or even deeper; also, some
documents may not use the document-title levels [0], only section
levels [1], and so may want to increase the TOC depth.
Additionally, allow per-format depth. For example, split-html has a
single page dedicated to the TOC, so there we may want a deeper TOC,
while on the html output, where the TOC is on the same page as the
whole document, a shorter TOC is preferred.
[0] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/#document-header
[1] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/#section-titles
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
The value of the RM variable in make is 'rm -f' [0], thus the additional
-f is redundant. Avoid it on the docs to avoid developers taking it as a
good example to follow.
[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#index-RM
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
If the examples given for launching an out-of-tree build are executed
as-is, this will result in the error message
Please configure Buildroot first (e.g. "make menuconfig")
Even if "make menuconfig" was run before, it's still not going to work
because the out-of-tree build doesn't use the in-tree .config.
Therefore, the example really should start with some config option.
Since "make menuconfig" is used in most other examples of creating a
config, use that here as well. Extend both examples with "menuconfig".
Reported-by: AndreiCherniaev <dungeonlords789@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Add 'utils/docker-run make check-package' to the default workflow of
submitting patches, just after the rebase and before using format-patch.
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Removing the "[Buildroot]" and the "Re:" from messages title to have a
cleaner look on the "news" boxes.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Feed source is moved to a local atom file available on the web server to
remove further problems with unreliable feed sources.
Moving the feed required a bit of refactor of the load_activity function
so it won't download two times te same url.
This change requires a cron job like this enabled on the website:
* * * * * wget -O new.atom https://lore.kernel.org/buildroot/new.atom
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Historically we have been (more-or-less consistently, sometimes forgetting
some files) updating the end year of the copyright statements at the
beginning of a new year.
We're naturally not alone in that. Recently this was discussed in curl, and
it turns out that copyright years are not really required:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/
So drop the years and simplify the copyright statements. While we're at it,
also ensure the same syntax (capital C, email address) is used everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
- Thank Smile for sponsoring the Buildroot Developers Meeting of
February 2023 by providing the meeting room
- Thank Armadeus and Logilin for their financial sponsoring in 2022
- Move older sponsors to the "Past sponsors" section
- Remove section about the Buildroot.org domain sponsor, as that
sponsoring ended in 2019.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The script "utils/check-package" checks that patch email prefix are
not be numbered. See:
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/utils/checkpackagelib/lib_patch.py?h=2022.08-rc1#n42
The error message recommends to generate patches to be included in
Buildroot with the command 'git format-patch -N'.
The patch policy section in the Buildroot manual does mention that.
This commit adds a note about that requirement.
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
The "find" and "xargs" commands, from the "findutils" package are used
during the build process. See for example [1].
Even if it's a quite common package which is almost sure to be present
on the host, it should be listed here. When writing new recipes, hooks
and scripts, it is generally safe and portable to restrict to the
host dependencies listed in those prerequisites.
This commit just add the missing "findutils" package in this list.
[1] https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/Makefile?h=2022.05.1#n737
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The manual explanation seemed to imply that the cache is always in
~/.buildroot-ccache/, but it's just the default value. Clarify this
point.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Back many years ago, we developed an Eclipse plugin that simplified
the usage of Buildroot toolchains. Enabling the BR2_ECLIPSE_REGISTER=y
was registering the Buildroot toolchain into a special file in your
HOME folder that the Eclipse plugin would recognize to allow to
directly use the Buildroot cross-compiler.
This Eclipse plugin has not been maintained for years. The last commit
in the repository dates back from September 2017. Since then Eclipse
has moved on, and the plugin is no longer compatible with current
versions of Eclipse.
Also, Eclipse is probably no longer that widely used in the embedded
Linux space, as other more modern IDEs have become more popular.
All in all, it's time to say good bye to this Eclipse integration.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Add a section to the "Integration topics" chapter about how we integrate
systemd. Add a first subsection about how dbus and dbus-broker work with
systemd.
This is just the start of the integration information about systemd.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
We want to add more information in the manual about how a system created
with buildroot works overall. We currently already have a chapter about
SELinux, but we want to add more information like that, e.g. details
about how systemd in Buildroot works.
Create a new chapter "Integration topics" with an introductory blurb,
and move the SELinux topic under it (as a section rather than a
chapter).
"Integration topics" is not the best title, but we couldn't find
anything better.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: remove selinux from main manual.txt]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
The command `cmp` is used by `package/pkg-generic.mk` at commit
8623cc5deb. This command is provided by `diffutils`, so it should be
installed on the host system.
Signed-off-by: José Luis Salvador Rufo <salvador.joseluis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Commit "45aabcddc5 utils/get-developers: really make it callable from
elsewhere than the toplevel directory" had a unforeseen side-effect:
the fact that check-developers with no arguments used to validate the
syntax of the DEVELOPERS no longer works. Indeed, the
parse_developers() call was moved *after* the check that verifies if
at least one action is passed. Due to this, the check-DEVELOPERS
verification in Gitlab CI, which invokes get-developers without
argument to validate the DEVELOPERS file... no longer does anything
useful.
In order to fix this, we introduce an explicit action in
get-developers to request the validation of the DEVELOPERS file. The
implementation is trivial, as the validation is already done by
calling parse_developers(), but at least now we have an action that
does "nothing", except execute until the validation is done.
This is also much more explicit than "invoke get-developers without
arguments to just do validation".
The initial investigation of the issue was done by Ricardo Martincoski
<ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com> and reported at
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20220528014832.289907-1-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com/,
but we have chosen to introduce a separate -v option rather than
making the validation part of the existing -c action, which serves a
different purpose.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Whenever possible, we want to use the "shortcuts" provided by genimage
for the partition-type-uuid values:
- U for the EFI System Partition
- F for FAT32 partitions
- L for root filesystem partitions and other Linux filesystems
In follow-up commits, we will convert existing genimage.cfg to this
convention, except for the root filesystem, if the existing
genimage.cfg specifies a partition-type-uuid that doesn't match the
one that "L" would imply. In this case, we will keep things as-is to
not break existing setups. However, for all future genimage.cfg files,
we recommend to use "L" for the root filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
The support for this architecture has been removed from the upstream
Linux kernel, as of commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aec499c75cf8e0b599be4d559e6922b613085f8f
Which states:
The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom
32-bit RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added
to the kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors
were already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.
As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.
There has also been little to no maintenance done in Buildroot for
this architecture in recent times, so let's follow the Linux kernel
community decision and drop support for this CPU architecture.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Chien Peter Lin <peterlin@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
