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Thomas Petazzoni
9460079914 documentation: Update to explain how board support works
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-12-16 14:35:21 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
176afdb3a1 linux: add shorter shortcuts
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>
2010-12-11 02:01:10 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
17b66affdf ccache: rework ccache management
* 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>
2010-12-08 17:51:49 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
706683b8b9 documentation: add FAQ entry about glibc-static issue on Fedora
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-26 10:08:21 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
5a51a370f0 documentation: add FAQ entry concerning serial port configuration
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-26 10:08:20 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
42ddff55d4 documentation: introduce a FAQ section
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-26 09:59:21 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
49b3ac6560 documentation: Mention the fact that the skeleton location can be configured
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-24 16:34:27 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
3aac10520a documentation: Document the GIT/SVN download capabilities
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-24 16:34:27 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a88ba3eee0 documentation: Reword introduction about external toolchains
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-24 16:34:26 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
5cf1ce9b62 documentation: Mention which external toolchains we tested
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-24 12:04:03 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
6e2a35c9d4 documentation: Update details about external toolchains
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-24 12:02:20 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
167302e722 documentation: Remove mention of gcc 3.x
We don't support gcc 3.x anymore, so get rid of 3.x-specific details

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-24 11:59:02 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
f6ec679f7b documentation: Tell not to use make -jN
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-24 11:57:34 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
0d2804011b documentation: clarify Buildroot steps
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-11-24 11:56:27 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
5f71fc1f19 Remove support for shared configuration cache
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>
2010-11-05 10:21:17 +01:00
Lionel Landwerlin
89d1ad91fe package: move autoreconfigure step to pre configure hook
[Peter: update documentation to match]
Signed-off-by: Lionel Landwerlin <llandwerlin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-11-05 10:03:29 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
019952d4bc docs/buildroot: remove trailing spaces
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-10-23 14:44:16 +02:00
Martin Banky
cc98404a31 buildroot.html: Fix grammer and punctuation
Also, clarified some of the information given.

Signed-off-by: Martin Banky <Martin.Banky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-10-23 14:43:23 +02:00
Martin Banky
2b504fe1f6 buildroot.html: html code clean-up and other issues - Part2
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>
2010-10-23 14:43:20 +02:00
Martin Banky
8113c8162b buildroot.html: html code clean-up and other issues - Part1
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>
2010-10-23 14:43:12 +02:00
Yegor Yefremov
3f1d79d379 fix buildroot.html typos
Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-09-28 14:46:55 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
1110062e46 docs/buildroot.html: document Makefile wrapper in output dir
For out-of-tree builds.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-09-27 22:34:11 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
677ae6f6a5 docs/buildroot.html: minor tweaks
- 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>
2010-09-27 22:19:37 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
a8102672d9 Fix a wrong sentence in the docs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-07-08 22:15:34 +02:00
Peter Huewe
f4abd4e612 docs: Fixed spelling error in buildroot.html GETTEXT instead of GNUTTEXT
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>
2010-06-25 14:15:12 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
4aeb8c851a target/device: misc cleanup
Remove outdated and/or unused variables/files.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-06-23 22:57:54 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
b10197dcf2 target: get rid of unused BR2_COPYTO / BR2_TARGET_ATMEL_COPYTO
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-06-22 17:41:34 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
cd7459b4ee docs: Document location of .config for out-of-tree builds
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-06-21 23:07:12 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
2b42aae784 Makefile: support gconfig (GTK-based configurator) similar to xconfig
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>
2010-06-05 21:15:10 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
77e026bbfa Add documentation on gettext integration
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-05-24 22:33:07 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
0b78722085 documentation: update after TARGET_DEVICE_TABLE removal
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2010-04-17 04:36:23 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
16c1549fd2 documentation: update about new package infrastructures
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>
2009-12-15 19:57:41 +01:00
grante
0a62bb41ba docs: Clean up punctuation, grammar, usage, and typos.
Closes #795.

Signed-off-by: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-12-12 01:29:23 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
4f399c3fb1 docs/buildroot.html: fix minor typo
STAGING_DIR is output/staging, not build/staging per default.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-11-26 11:08:06 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
796e2b6ccc docs/buildroot.html: document linux26-menuconfig / LINUX26_KCONFIG
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>
2009-11-22 21:51:46 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
5e5f3209f0 documentation: insist more on why output/target/ should not be used
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>
2009-10-30 09:06:47 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
7a83c1458f docs/buildroot.html: remove mention of skel.tar.gz
We haven't used a tarball for the skeleton since we moved to subversion
in 2006.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-10-18 09:29:50 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
524b203588 busybox: invert hide option
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>
2009-10-15 10:18:51 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
58fd779a43 buildroot; move defconfigs to configs/ and print in help
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>
2009-10-04 22:20:28 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
84a8eafd4c documentation: update after major changes
* 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>
2009-09-16 23:01:07 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d9a9501771 documentation: mention the new xconfig interface
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2009-07-27 18:09:45 +02:00
Daniel Mack
53fd73611c docs: describe BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-07-27 14:47:53 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
6b4ae38d12 docs: get rid of svn date keywords
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-05-15 09:30:58 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
e2cac48876 docs/: announce move to git
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-05-03 22:11:33 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
01dce41217 docs/buildroot.html: fix typo 2009-04-29 08:12:22 +00:00
Thomas Petazzoni
c9adae97af New section on external toolchain usage 2009-04-28 21:12:23 +00:00
Thomas Petazzoni
b7b6946b56 Documentation cleanups
* Add the section describing the project feature to the table of
   contents
 * Change the formatting of titles in the section on the project
   feature
 * Mention that the section on project feature is obsolete since the
   feature has now been implemented
 * Remove the duplication about two different sections documenting
   basically the same thing : how to use the Buildroot toolchain.
2009-04-28 20:58:57 +00:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d30b334654 Remove useless <ol>...</ol> tags 2009-03-25 14:41:23 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
0fadec67a8 docs/buildroot.html: remove reference to unused BUILDROOT_USE_XWINDOWS 2009-03-23 21:48:50 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
77754571b2 pkgconfig: add pkgconfig package for target
The host versions shouldn't be visible in Kconfig, so remove the
reference to BR2_PACKAGE_PKGCONFIG everywhere and prefix the host targets
with host-.

At the same time add pkgconfig for the target (E.G. for development) and
let BR2_PACKAGE_PKGCONFIG control that package.

Notice: all defconfigs in the tree have been updated, but make sure to
disable the pkgconfig package (unless you want it) if you use an external
config, otherwise you'll end up with pkgconfig and glib2 in the target.
2009-03-18 19:19:10 +00:00