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Author SHA1 Message Date
Yannick Brosseau
db2b8a1ce2 docs/manual: Remove link to emdebian and replace with debian port page
In the list of full distribution, the FAQ contains a link to Emdebian.
This project stopped receiving updates in 2014 and the main web page does not exist anymore.
This replace the entry with a link to the Debian ports page.

Signed-off-by: Yannick Brosseau <yannick.brosseau@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-03-15 22:28:01 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
532574b259 docs/manual: add details about top-level parallel build support
[Peter: change version reference to Buildroot 2020.02]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2019-11-29 15:42:22 +01:00
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
33712d7a7c docs/manual: add FAQ entry about speeding up the build process
This is a very frequently asked question, so let's add a FAQ entry
about it, that we can progressively extend with more advices for our
users.

[Thomas: remove the part about your boss buying new hardware, as
suggested by reviewers.]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2015-02-03 15:15:27 +01:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
7ffa8e4c60 manual: Remove trailing space
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>
2014-11-22 20:13:16 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
5c1b01a17d docs/manual: slightly improve faq entry about compiler on target
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-10-12 17:27:02 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
569db40574 manual: high-level restructuring
The structure of the buildroot manual is not always clear. There is a large
number of chapters, and some chapters seem to overlap. The distinction
between general usage and developer information is not always clear.

This patch restructures the manual into four large parts:
- getting started
- user guide
- developer guide
- appendix

Except for the names of these parts, the section names are not yet changed.
Content-wise there are no changes yet either. This will be handled in
subsequent patches.

In order to achieve the introduction of a new level 'parts' above
'chapters', the section indicators (=, ==, ===, ...) of several sections
have to be moved one level down. Additionally, the leveloffset indication to
asciidoc has to be removed. Finally, to maintain more or less the same level
of detail in the table of contents, the toc.section.depth attribute is
reduced as well. Note that for some sections, less detail is visible now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00
Vivien Didelot
9ab109869f manual: (faq-boot-hang-after-starting) fix config entries
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-06-22 19:21:31 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
86a415df8a manual: use one-line titles instead of two-line titles (trivial)
Asciidoc supports two syntaxes for section titles: two-line titles (title
plus underline consisting of a particular symbol), and one-line titles
(title prefixed with a specific number of = signs).

The two-line title underlines are:
Level 0 (top level):     ======================
Level 1:                 ----------------------
Level 2:                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Level 3:                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Level 4 (bottom level):  ++++++++++++++++++++++

and the one-line title prefixes:
= Document Title (level 0) =
== Section title (level 1) ==

=== Section title (level 2) ===
==== Section title (level 3) ====
===== Section title (level 4) =====

The buildroot manual is currenly using the two-line titles, but this has
multiple disadvantages:

- asciidoc also uses some of the underline symbols for other purposes (like
  preformatted code, example blocks, ...), which makes it difficult to do
  mass replacements, such as a planned follow-up patch that needs to move
  all sections one level down.

- it is difficult to remember which level a given underline symbol (=-~^+)
  corresponds to, while counting = signs is easy.

This patch changes all two-level titles to one-level titles in the manual.
The bulk of the change was done with the following Python script, except for
the level 1 titles (-----) as these underlines are also used for literal
code blocks.
This patch only changes the titles, no other changes. In
adding-packages-directory.txt, I did add missing newlines between some
titles and their content.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import mmap
import re

for input in sys.argv[1:]:

    f = open(input, 'r+')
    f.flush()
    s = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0)

    # Level 0 (top level):     ======================   =
    # Level 1:                 ----------------------   ==
    # Level 2:                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ===
    # Level 3:                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   ====
    # Level 4 (bottom level):  ++++++++++++++++++++++   =====

    def replace_title(s, symbol, replacement):
        pattern = re.compile(r'(.+\n)\%s{2,}\n' % symbol, re.MULTILINE)
        return pattern.sub(r'%s \1' % replacement, s)

    new = s
    new = replace_title(new, '=', '=')
    new = replace_title(new, '+', '=====')
    new = replace_title(new, '^', '====')
    new = replace_title(new, '~', '===')
    #new = replace_title(new, '-', '==')

    s.seek(0)
    s.write(new)
    s.resize(s.tell())
    s.close()
    f.close()

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-02 10:27:59 +02:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
c09dda8e56 manual: fix typo in abbreviation 'i.e.'
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-29 09:30:50 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
2ab2463c64 manual/faq-troubleshooting.txt: remove the extra 'the'
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-23 20:52:59 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
ffeda5e429 manual/faq: add section about why no binary packages
It comes up every now and then on the list, so better be prepared to
point at the manual, rather than rehash the same every time.

Most of the chapter is a copy-paste of the report from the Buildroot
Developpers Day in Pragues, 2011-10-28:
    http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-November/047229.html

We consider the opinions expressed in that report to be still valid
now, two years later.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-20 20:56:01 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
4ce8af8632 Remove references to module-init-tools
Now that it is replaced by kmod.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-02 23:01:34 +02:00
Samuel Martin
3edb0271db manual: cleanup and update editor tags
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-17 22:50:04 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
163ec17904 docs/manual: remove FAQ entry about 'depends on' vs. 'select'
The FAQ is before the section on package development, and only covers
user issues, not developer issues, so the FAQ entry about 'depends on'
vs. 'select' really doesn't have its place here.

And the 'depends on' vs. 'select' issue is already covered in a later
section, see
http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#depends-on-vs-select.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-29 22:42:34 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
65f66c170e manual: various fixes
Various consistency and correctness improvements.

Also removing some sentences that are not or no longer relevant.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-27 17:07:42 -08:00
Simon Dawson
ecd2353555 manual: minor tweaks
Minor grammatical and spelling tweaks to the manual content.

Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-16 22:24:42 +01:00
Samuel Martin
cc02514f95 manual: faq.txt: rework and update
Also rename faq.txt -> faq-troubleshooting.txt

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:48 +01:00