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Luca Ceresoli
e10e4d19e3 docs/manual: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-09-19 14:03:47 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
c8f51a00d8 docs/manual: add appendix about $(HOST_DIR)/usr
Reported-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-09-06 22:13:40 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
11e548f1e6 docs/manual: add appendix about migration from older versions
... and move the br2-external migration to it.

Reported-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-09-06 22:13:17 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
63eeb9a383 core/legal-info: use hash file from version sub-dir
When we have multiple versions for a package, and the licensing terms
depend on the version actually selected (e.g. like Qt5), storing the
hashes for those license files in the .hash file is broken: the infra
will ensure that all hashes for a file do match, which would not be the
case here.

We fix that by first looking for a hash file in the version sub-dir
first, and if that does not exist, then we use the main hash file.

Drop the useless intermediate variable 'ret'.

Update the documentation accordingly.

Reported-by: Joshua Henderson <joshua.henderson@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Joshua Henderson <joshua.henderson@microchip.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-29 22:34:41 +02:00
Markus Mayer
b2c043b29a package/linux-tools: change method for including linux-tool sub-makefiles
Make inclusion ordering of all linux-tool-*.mk sub-makefiles explicit
instead of relying on alphabetical sort order. This is done by
renaming the Linux tools sub-makefiles to the format linux-tool-*.mk.in.
This causes the top-level Makefile to ignore the Linux tools
sub-makefiles.

Until now, the main Makefile included all linux-tool-*.mk files, as
well as linux-tools.mk, and it relied on alphabetical sorting to
include them in the proper order (linux-tool-*.mk before
linux-tools.mk).

Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
[Thomas: improve comment in the code as suggested by Yann.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-19 21:16:38 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
0611045c42 manual: patches are not applied for SITE_METHOD = local
We had several remarks on the mailing list of users that were surprised
that patches were not applied for packages whose SITE_METHOD is local.
So document this.

Note that for OVERRIDE_SRCDIR itself it is already documented:

  When Buildroot finds that for a given package, an
  <pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR has been defined, it will no longer attempt to
  download, extract and patch the package. Instead, it will directly use
  the source code available in in the specified directory.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-09 17:25:48 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
7cf4b79c82 manual: remove references to host/usr paths
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-05 16:06:28 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
610908e1db docs/manual: update gettext details
The way gettext is handled in Buildroot has significantly changed,
with changes visible to packages. This commit updates the relevant
section of the manual to document how packages should now interact
with the gettext support.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2017-07-05 01:37:38 +02:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
cc2cadd082 manual: add documentation about DL_DIR
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>
2017-07-04 17:19:08 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
4bd21d3e95 docs/manual: document hashes for license files
[Peter: use sha256 in example]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Rahul Bedarkar <rahulbedarkar89@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-07-03 18:03:51 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a0c9b36b80 docs/manual: update details about hashes
This commit updates the manual about hashes, fixing a number of
issues:

 - Adding the .hash file should no longer be optional: it *must* be
   added. Therefore the wording "You can add ..." is changed to "When
   possible, you must add ...".

 - We are now checking hashes for Git downloaded packages, so fix this
   as well, and indicate more clearly which download methods have hash
   checking.

 - We no longer want to have auto-generated patches be downloaded
   through <pkg>_PATCH because such patches are not stable over time,
   and their hash can change. For example, downloading patches from
   github.com should no longer be done.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-07-03 00:05:18 +02:00
Peter Seiderer
487e9382f6 manual: fix test-pkg missing.config file name
Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-02 00:36:28 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
56f21c283c manual: update old references to support/scripts
There were still some references to the old location of the scripts in
the manual. Replace them by utils/.

While we're at it, remove the redundant ./ at the beginning of some of
the example commands.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 19:43:46 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
7ca9fc3170 tools: rename to 'utils'
After some discussion, we found out that "tools" has the four first
letters identical to the "toolchain" subfolder, which makes it a bit
unpractical with tab-completion. So, this commit renames "tools" to
"utils", which is more tab-completion-friendly.

This has been discussed with Arnout and Yann.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 18:07:00 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
afdb545b28 tools: new tool to filter the output of make
Add brmake, a small script that redirects the build output log to a
file, keeping just Buildroot's own messages, with the date+time added
at the start of the line.

We need to unbuffer the output of make so that, when the script is
interrupted (SIGINT, ^C), there is no lingering output not yet digested
by the logger loop.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 17:56:11 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
27b7bd6ad0 tools: move get-developers out of support/scripts/
Move it to the top-level tools/ directory, so that it is easier to
find for users.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 17:53:04 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
afff1ce5b0 tools: move test-pkg out of support/scripts
Move it to the top-level tools/ directory, so that it is easier to
find for users.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 17:50:52 +02:00
Waldemar Brodkorb
85b36daa94 docs: known issues no longer valid
Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 12:56:21 +02:00
Baruch Siach
533a3321b0 docs/manual: drop mention of removed external toolchains
The CodeSourcery x86 and sh, the ADI Blackfin, and the Xilinx Mircoblaze
external toolchain profiles have all been removed. Update the manual.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-06-20 22:12:54 +02:00
Baruch Siach
e251bdbe8d docs/manual: update external toolchain advantages list
Buildroot can build non-uClibc toolchains internally for quite some time now.
Update the manual text.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-06-20 22:10:42 +02:00
Ricardo Martincoski
bb1c63763d docs/manual: PEP8 coding style for Python scripts
The advantages of using a pre-existing coding style instead of creating
our own are:
- documenting on the manual takes a single sentence;
- there are automatic tools to help during development/review.

So document that PEP8 recommendation should be followed.

Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-04-27 21:37:50 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
37308b979a support/test-pkg: run legal-info
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-17 15:54:33 +02:00
Rahul Bedarkar
bedb3be1c1 docs/manual: contribute: fix license string for Buildroot license
As per section 12.2 "Complying with the Buildroot license", Buildroot
is released under GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
But SPDX license string for Buildroot license in section 21.5
"Submitting patches" refers to only GPL version 2. Fix this
inconsistency by using correct SPDX identifier.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Bedarkar <rahulbedarkar89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-15 10:24:22 +02:00
Ricardo Martincoski
ad35a3a43d docs/manual: size of tab in package description
Explicitly state that one tab counts for 8 columns in package
description, leaving 62 characters to the text itself.
Update the text and the example in the two places where the Config.in
format is described.
Also mention a newline is expected between the help text itself and the
upstream URL.

This blob can help developers to understand the expected formatting.
Also, it can be referenced by reviewers.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/611289/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/606866/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/459960/

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-08 16:15:36 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
762cd7cdcb support/test-pkg: print number of toolchains and progress
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-06 21:51:29 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
0520b19e4b docs/manual: document the test-pkg script
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-06 21:50:59 +02:00
Rahul Bedarkar
5286dec396 docs/manual: refer to SPDX License List
We want to use SPDX short identifier for license string as much as
possible. So refer to SPDX license list and use SPDX short identifier
for license strings in documentation.

Also remove License abbreviations that we have.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Bedarkar <rahulbedarkar89@gmail.com>
[Thomas: take into account suggestions from Arnout.]
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-01 15:11:18 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
ba6360316f core: enhance printvars
Currently, the output of printvars copntains the name of the variable,
its expanded value and its un-expanded value.

However, most of the time, we need the actual, expanded value, so it can
be re-used from a (non-Buildroot) infrastructure script, like a
post-build script, or a build-farm driver (e.g. a Jenkins job...)

Add two options that a user may set to change the output of printvars:
  - QUOTED_VARS, if set, will quote the value
  - RAW_VARS, if set, will print the unexpanded value

The new output by default only prints the expanded value now.

So that it can be used as such:

    $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION
    BUSYBOX_VERSION=1.26.2

    $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES QUOTED_VARS=YES
    BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES='ncurses util-linux'

    $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES RAW_VARS=YES
    BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES))

And it is even possible to directly evaluate it in a shell script:

    eval $(make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION QUOTED_VARS=YES)

Backward compatibility of the output is not maintained. It is believed
that scripts that depended on the previous output were very fragile to
begin with, because they had to filter the non-formatted output
(splitting on spaces or braces was not really possible, because values
could contain either).

Document printvars and its options in the manual; list it in the output
of 'make help'.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-29 21:55:14 +02:00
Rahul Bedarkar
b0b2cd662b docs/manual: document MPL licenses
Many packages are provided under MPL v1.1 and v2.0. Document it under
License abbreviations section.

Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Bedarkar <rahul.bedarkar@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-03-16 16:58:04 +01:00
Rahul Bedarkar
399ab122af docs/manual: document ISC license
Many packages are provided under ISC license. Document it under License
abbreviations section.

Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Bedarkar <rahul.bedarkar@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-03-16 16:57:41 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
01372b0d60 luarocks-package: lowercase the upstream name for LuaRocks
LuaRocks has a policy that the rockspec and rock filenames are lower
case. However, the upstream name may contain uppercase characters.
We have several packages like that in Buildroot. To simplify the
package .mk files, apply the lowercase from within the infra.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-05 22:01:39 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
75cf694bb0 luarocks-package: introduce PKG_NAME_UPSTREAM
Since we now require Lua package names to start with "lua", it is likely
that the Buildroot name is different from the upstream LuaRocks name.
Add a feature to the luarocks-package infra that makes it easier to
handle this situation: the package can explicitly specify the upstream
name in PKG_NAME_UPSTREAM, and that name will be used in PKG_ROCKSPEC,
PKG_SOURCE and PKG_SUBDIR.

Add an explanation of this feature to the manual. To make the example
relevant, it is changed to lua-foo, where the upstream name is plain
foo. To avoid confusion with the dependency on a native library, that
dependency is renamed to bar.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-02 23:25:55 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
448730a2e4 manual: luarocks: improve tutorial example
The license file in a luarocks package is always inside the subdir, so the
example should reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-02 22:43:02 +01:00
Luca Ceresoli
60a94a39d9 docs/manual: centralize recommendations about BR2_DL_DIR
We currently have two places where we recommend where BR2_DL_DIR
should be set: "Environment variables" and "Location of downloaded
packages". The former recommends setting BR2_DL_DIR in the .config,
the latter kind of endorses using ~/.bashrc.

We prefer suggesting the ~/.bashrc way since it avoids downloading the
same file multiple times, and anyway it's wise to have all the details
in a unique place. So remove the .config suggestion from "Environment
variables" and let it just point to "Location of downloaded packages".

Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-02-07 14:55:02 +01:00
Luca Ceresoli
428145838b docs/manual: suggest 'YES' as the value for LIBFOO_GIT_SUBMODULES
The manual mentions LIBFOO_GIT_SUBMODULES but does not tell what value
it should have. The implementation only checks whether the variable is
non-empty, but we should suggest a specific value to avoid people
wondering what they have to set, and to try setting weird values.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: Ricardo Herrero <ricardo.herrero@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-02-07 14:47:04 +01:00
Francois Perrad
7f102d8284 pkg-perl: add PREFER_INSTALLER variable
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
[Thomas: tweak documentation.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-01-29 14:54:08 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
f46ac03518 Makefile, manual: Bump copyright year
Happy 2017!

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-01-27 19:10:22 +01:00
Marcus Hoffmann
fc67850dfa docs: Add bc to required tools
We check for bc under required packages.  It should be listed as such in the
docs.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Hoffmann <m.hoffmann@cartelsol.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-01-06 12:18:30 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
e09e1873a1 support/dependencies: ensure we have 'file' on the host
Recently, the autoconf macros for libtool started using '/usr/bin/file'
to determine the type of library that is generated by the toolchain.
Packages that use this recent version of the libtool autoconf macros
will fail in a rather dramatic way when /usr/bin/file is not present
on the host: the package will still build but no shared library is
generated, which in turn may cause build failures in other packages
that link with it.

For example, libpng's configure determines that it is not possible to
build a shared library on MIPS64 because the expected output from 'file'
is not present. Therefore, only a static libpng.a is built. Later,
bandwithd links with -lpng but it doesn't use the pkg-config's
Private-Libs (because it's not linking statically) and it doesn't have
access to the NEEDED reference from the shared library. Therefore, it
doesn't link with zlib and fails with

    pngrutil.c:(.text+0x55c): undefined reference to `inflate'

We cant use host-file because it is itself an autotools package and is
itself using libtool, so this would be a chicken-n-egg problem. Besides,
the libtool script really wants to call /usr/bin/file, so it would not
even find our host-file anyway.

So, just require that '/usr/bin/file' is present on the host.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-27 18:02:42 +01:00
Romain Naour
65395920b5 doc/manual: document the new waf-package infra variables
Document LIBFOO_WAF_OPTS, LIBFOO_BUILD_OPTS, LIBFOO_INSTALL_STAGING_OPTS
and LIBFOO_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS.

Also document LIBFOO_CONF_OPTS which was missing in waf-package
reference.

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-11 18:03:59 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
d64735fca0 docs/manual: document the waf-package infra
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>
2016-12-02 22:36:49 +01:00
Danomi Manchego
c3dd221c6f docs/manual: fix FOO_PKGDIR name and definition
Change "foo" references to "libfoo" in section that defines variables
explicitly stated to relate to a "libfoo" package.

Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-02 21:40:36 +01:00
Lucile Quirion
bf116466d2 docs/manual: fix typo
Also remove dangling reference to virtual package lists.

Signed-off-by: Lucile Quirion <lucile.quirion@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-11-29 23:28:25 +01:00
Jerry Evans
d082d20a8a docs/manual: fix documentation about BR2_EXTERNAL_<name>_PATH variable
The BR2_EXTERNAL documentation improperly tells to use the
BR2_EXTERNAL_<name>_DIR variable to reference the location of the
BR2_EXTERNAL directory. But in fact the variable is named
BR2_EXTERNAL_<name>_PATH.

In addition, some closing double quotes were missing.

This commit fixes both of those issues.

Signed-off-by: Jerry Evans <g4@novadsp.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-11-20 15:55:22 +01:00
Danomi Manchego
556e9f3278 docs/manual: fix scanpypi path typos
Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-10-19 23:39:42 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
29673c8b1e docs/manual: document both user-facing br2-external variables
While BR2_EXTERNAL_<NAME>_PATH was already documented, it was not
made obvious that it could be reused in post-biuld, post-image and
in-fakeroot scripts.

The BR2_EXTERNAL_<NAME>_DESC variable was not documented at all.

Update the manual to fix this.

Note: a2x chokes on this:

    .Note:
    Both +BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_PATH+ and +BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_DESC+ are
      available [...]

and spits out a totally useless error message:

    a2x: ERROR: "xsltproc" --stringparam toc.section.depth 1 --stringparam
    callout.graphics 0 --stringparam navig.graphics 0 --stringparam
    admon.textlabel 1 --stringparam admon.graphic 0 --stringparam
    chunk.section.depth 0 --output "/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/docs/manual/manual.html"
    "/etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/xhtml.xsl"
    "/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/docs/manual/manual.xml" returned
    non-zero exit status 6

So, we had to resort to using different quoting styles for each
variables. They are not semantically equivalent, but the rendering
is the same with the default CSS (which we are using). That's gonna
be good-enough for now...

Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-10-19 23:20:43 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
4c75c3b807 docs/manual: document the br2-external desc: field
Docuement the new, optional desc: field for an external.desc file.

That part of the manual was starting to be a bit of a mess, so
reorganise it. Provide a complete br2-external tree example.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-16 13:01:02 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
339e1c9500 core: allow a br2-external tree to override a defconfig
Currently, it is not possible for a br2-external tree to override a
defconfig bundled in Buildroot, nor is it possible to override one from
a previous br2-external tree in the stack.

However, it is interesting that a latter br2-external tree be able to
override a defconfig:

  - the ones bundled in Buildroot are minimalist, and almost always
    build a toolchain, so a br2-external tree may want to provide a
    "better" defconfig (better, in the sense "suited for the project");

  - similarly for a defconfig from a previous br2-external tree.

But we can't do that, as the rules for the defconfigs are generated in
the order the br2-external trees are specified, all after the bundled
defconfigs. Those rule are patten-matching rules, which means that the
first one to match is used, and the following ones are ignored.

Add a new utility macro, 'reverse', inspired from GMSL, that does what
it says: reverse a list of words.

Use that macro to reverse the list of br2-external trees, so that the
latters win over the formers, and even over bundled ones.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-16 13:01:02 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
1b496d40e3 docs/manual: document multi br2-external
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-16 13:01:02 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
a71e311df6 docs/manual: add appendix to convert old br2-external trees
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
[Peter: slightly reword]
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-16 13:01:02 +02:00