Currently, as Thomas pointed out [0], the help for kconfig packages is
not consistently used and handled by the different packages.
This commit introduces a generic help text for kconfig packages, that is
based on what the package declares:
- the list of kconfig editors it supports;
- whether it is possible to save back the configuration (impossible if
the package uses an in-tree defconfig file);
- whether the package actually supports (loading and saving) defconfig
files, by introducing a new variable a package can set if it does
not (only busybox is known to be in that case).
That new help helper is only used if the package does not already define
its own help, to be consistent with what we do for other _CMDS.
[0] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2021-July/313570.html
Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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>
The CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is currently set as 'Debug' in case BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG is
set, and as 'Release' in other cases. However, while the description of
BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG is to enable debug symbols (no runtime impact), the 'Debug'
build type in CMake can actually have runtime impact. For one, because it
does not set -DNDEBUG like is done for 'Release', but also because packages
may do custom things based on it.
The question of which CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Buildroot should set, be it 'Debug',
'Release', 'RelWithDebInfo' or others, has come up several times in the
past. See some references below:
- July 2016: switch from Debug to RelWithDebInfo:
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=4b0120183404913f7f7788ef4f0f6b51498ef363
- October 2016: switch from RelWithDebInfo back to Debug:
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=104bb29e0490bfb487e2e665448dd3ca07fcc2b5
and changes to make sure Buildroot's flags are respected:
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=12494ef48f893684d0800e7f6fe39a2ceaed0451
- August 2017: bug #10246 - "BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG does not have the expected
effect for cmake packages"
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10246
- August 2017: mail thread following bug #10246:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2017-August/200778.html
In the last mail thread, Samuel Martin confirmed that the 'Release' build
type could be used in all cases, because Buildroot is actually making sure
that the optimization flags are those determined by Buildroot, not the
defaults of cmake, thanks to commit 12494ef48f.
But Arnout Vandecappelle objected to using always 'Release', stating that
users may actually want the extra assertions.
With the introduction of BR2_ENABLE_RUNTIME_DEBUG, Buildroot can now cater
for all cases:
- use CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release by default. This makes sure that there is no
unexpected performance degradation triggered by enabling BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG.
- users can optionally enable BR2_ENABLE_RUNTIME_DEBUG if they want runtime
debug info like assertions, at the risk of introducing performance
degradation. In this case, we switch to CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug.
- orthogonally to the above, BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG still determines passing the
'-g' flag to enable debug symbols, and BR2_OPTIMIZE_X still determines the
used optimization flags.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Due to the recent events at Frenode [0], the channel has become a bit
unreliable (much spammed), and users have started to move away already,
as quite a few other projects have moved their IRC presence away from
Freenode.
There are a few alternatives. The first to spring to mind, is the new
Libera.Chat network [1], managed by the previous Freenode staff, so we
could expect quite a good experience there. However, it is a very young
network. The second well known alternative is the long-established OFTC,
which has been very reliable in its 20 years of existence.
So, let's move to OFTC, just because it has a track-record of robustness
(which Libera.Chat still has to build, for being young).
Note: there are a lot of other IRC networks, some very good too, but we
probably would be much off-topic on most of them.
[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/856543/
[1] https://libera.chat/
[2] https://www.oftc.net/
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@collins.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
Acked-By: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Sometimes, post-build or post-image scripts need to reinvoke
Buildroot's make, for example to execute "make printvars".
However, so far post-build/image/fakeroot can't trivially run printvars
in a way that worked for both in-tree and out-of-tree builds. Indeed:
* "make printvars" would work for in-tree builds, but not out of tree
builds
* "make -C ${O} printvars" would work for out-of-tree builds, but not
in-tree builds
* "make -C ${BR2_CONFIG%/*} printvars" works in both cases, but it is
a bit cryptic, and two maintainers did not even immediately think of
it
In order to solve this, this commit exposes $(CONFIG_DIR) to
post-build/image/fakeroot scripts, through the EXTRA_ENV variable.
The documentation is updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- reference BR2_CONFIG as an exemple
- slightly reword the commit log accordingly
- move the doc for CONFIG_DIR next to that of BR2_CONFIG
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
The Github macro example shows something that is now considered
incorrect: using v1.0 as the VERSION. This is not longer recommended
as it prevents from matching with release-monitoring.org details.
Let's update the example, and add a note to explain this in more
details.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
FOO_CPE_ID_VALID is an internal implementation detail. Packages should
really define an actual CPE_ID variable to trigger their full CPE_ID
definition.
Reported-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Cc: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
[Peter: completely drop any mention of _CPE_ID_VALID in the manual]
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Since commit dfcc18f84b cmake-package
_INSTALL_STAGING_OPTS/_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS use 'install/fast'
instead of 'install', adjust documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The manual incorrectly refers to the script file as `setup-environment';
it is actually called `environment-setup'.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Schwarz <konrad.schwarz@siemens.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Some qmake based packages need to call the syncqt.pl script before
building to have a properly populated "include" directory inside the
package build tree.
This script is normally automatically executed by qmake when a source
tree is from a git clone: buildroot purges the .git directory hence
the script never runs, and we need to call it explicitly. Setting
<pkg>_SYNC_QT_HEADERS = YES will force calling this script.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
In order to simplify the usage of a buildroot toolchain within
the buildroot shell, a "configure" alias is provided to call
./configure with the correct flags.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Install an helper script to setup a build environment based on
Buildroot. It's useful when a developer wants to use a Buildroot
generated SDK to build an external project.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Tested-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com>
Tested-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Maury Anderson <maury.anderson@collins.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@rockwellcollins.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- move before skeletons
- select the custom 'mine' skeleton, not the sysv one
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@rockwellcollins.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- alphabetical order (skeleton before toolchain)
- leave the list of choices 'open'
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Add documentation about how to use SELinux in Buildroot, and what are
the available mechanisms to extend and customize the SELinux policy.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>
[Thomas: misc improvements.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The manual has a section on adding board support to upstream buildroot,
but it fails to mention some of the things we expect. Add more of them.
- Internal toolchain.
- Beautify defconfig file.
- Fixed versions for components.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- use +monospace+ for the variables
- use _italic_ for sections in defconfig
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
There is no debug profile on cargo. The available profiles are: dev
(enabled by default), release, test and bench.
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Since Gitlab 12.9, Gitlab allow to trigger child pipeline with generated configuration file.
See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/35632
This allow us to stop updating the .gitlab-ci.yml file when a
new defconfig is added to Buildroot.
Remove check-gitlab-ci.yml job since it is now uneeded.
Remove .gitlab-ci.yml make target.
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
[ann.morin.1998@free.fr: manual: no longer needed to update at all]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
As Cargo is either installed by host-rust or host-rust-bin, the
Cargo-based packages should depend on host-rustc.
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Havelange <patrick.havelange@essensium.com>
[Arnout: also select HOST_RUSTC in Config.in]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: David Pierret <david.pierret@smile.fr>
Tested-by: David Pierret <david.pierret@smile.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Describe release engineering and development phases of the project.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently, the linux kernel will apply some fixups on its .config file,
based on whether some packages are enabled or not. That list of
conditional fixups is getting bigger and bigger with each new package
that needs such fixups, culminating with the pending firewalld one [0].
Furthermore, these fixups are not accessible to packages in br2-external
trees.
Add a new per-package variable, that packages may set to the commands to
run to fixup the kernel .config file, which is added at the end of the
linux' own fixups.
This opens the possibility to write things like;
define FOO_LINUX_CONFIG_FIXUPS
$(call KCONFIG_ENABLE_OPT,BLA)
endef
Of course, it also opens the way to run arbitrary commands in there, but
any alternative that would be declarative only, such as a list of
options to enable or disable (as an example):
FOO_LINUX_CONFIG_FIXUPS = +BAR -FOO +BUZ="value"
.. is not very nice either, and such lists fall flat when a value would
have a space.
For packages that we have in-tree, we can ensure they won't play foul
with their _LINUX_CONFIG_FIXUPS. For packages in br2-external trees,
there's nothing we can do; users already have the opportunity to hack
into the linux configure process by providing LINUX_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS
or LINUX_POST_CONFIGURE_HOOKS anyway...
.. which brings the question of why we don't use that to implement the
per-package fixups. We don't, because _PRE or _POST_CONFIGURE_HOOKS are
run after we run 'make oldconfig' to sanitise the mangled .config.
[0] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2020-March/278683.html
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Fix a few punctuation mistakes. The removed link is redundant, see the
previous sentence.
Signed-off-by: Merlin Büge <merlin.buege@tuhh.de>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
With autoconf packages, we often specify ac_cv_func_... cached values to
avoid runtime checks during configure. With meson the equivalent is
setting properties in cross-compilation.conf which we cannot do in
Buildroot at the moment.
For example, libglib2 used to set ac_cv_func_printf_unix98 and
ac_cv_func_vsnprintf_c99 so that the system printf could be used, but
with the conversion to meson these checks fail and the gnulib fallback
is used.
Add infrastructure in the same way as FOO_MESON_EXTRA_BINARIES to allow
per-package modification to the cross-compilation properties.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: do a single substitution as in a1e3c7b693]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
This provides generic functions for Qt5 qmake based packages. It will
make it possible to remove lots of redefinition of
QT5_xxx_{CONFIGURE|BUILD|INSTALL_STAGING}_CMDS. Additionally it
provides a generic target install method which will make most of the
package specific commands obsolete.
This is done by re-running the install step of the qmake generated
Makefile with the package build directory prepended (to the
staging/host path). Even though this does create lengthy pathes it
allows for easy separation of the staging files from the host destined
files by just omitting the resulting BUILD_DIR+HOST_DIR path from the
following rsync call to the real target folder. The cleanup of many
files we dont want in target is deferred to the target-finalize
step. In addition to what's being removed already, we also have to
cleanup some Qt5 specific files (prl) and the documentation directory.
This approach was chosen over copying all files recorded in the pkg-files-list
after some discussion which Thomas Petazzoni summed up:
"We don't yet use pkg-files-list really as part of the build
process anywhere, I feel a bit more comfortable at this point with what
Andreas is proposing."
Thanks to this infrastructure, it will be possible to get rid of the
many conditional install commands because qmake already takes care of
this when generating the Makefile install targets with the given or
autodetected configure options of each package.
However, custom install steps may have to remain in cases where a
particular Buildroot option has no corresponding setting in the
packages configuration options.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Naumann <anaumann@ultratronik.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Unlike <PKG>_DEPENDENCIES, <PKG>_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES only guarantees
extract and patch of listed dependencies, not build. Make this subtlety
more explicit in the documentation.
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: slight fix]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Package optional or choice config symbols are usually prefixed with the
package config symbol name. Rename BR2_PACKAGE_CURL to
BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL_CURL to conform.
Update references to the old name.
Cc: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Reviewed-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The seperation of the fields in the hash file should be 2 spaces for
consitency
Update the manual accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- drop the notes part, reword the first hunk
- update the examples
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
This list dates back to 2012. Since a long time now Buildroot saves the
patches applied as well as the actual source code for some external
toolchains. Update the manual accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
This patch adds a new manual section that captures an overview
of the run-tests tool, how to manually run a test and where to
find the test case script.
A brief set of steps is included to go through how to add a new
test case and suggestions on how to test/debug.
Cc: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Cc: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- switch the creating and debugging sections
- minor reformatting
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Update dependency documentation to detail the order-only relationship
associated with the DEPENDENCIES variable. See the thread at [1] for
details.
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2019-October/262685.html
Signed-off-by: Dan Walkes <danwalkes@trellis-logic.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: indentation & slight rephrasing]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
