Currently, our commit titles are not very well standardized, and it
would be great to standardize them a little bit more. A number of
people use "<pkg>: " as prefix, others use "package/<pkg>: ". Some
people start the rest of the commit title (after the prefix) with an
upper-case letter, some with a lower-case letter.
In an attempt to standardize this, this commit updates the manual with
some examples of good commit titles.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.com.br>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The script is utils/get-developers but the manual refers to get-developer in
several places.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This addon allows to generate a Buildroot package from a Luarocks
package definition.
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Some packages may want to build only specific targets, instead of the
default.
So, allow them to provide FOO_NINJA_OPTS (not really options, but we
just mimicked the naming we already have for autotools packages).
Update the manual accordingly.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Cc: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
external.desc must be present when using a br2-external tree. The
documentation notes this later in the text, but the file is missing
from the initial overview of files.
Fixes bug #11481.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Wagner <mail@philipp-wagner.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
This variable is needed for upgrading packages with scancpan.
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Tk Open Systems has sponsored the Buildroot Association to organize
the Buildroot Developers Meeting.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Explain how this can be used with git send-email, and how git can be
configured to use it automatically.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
As discussed in [1], our guideline for the ordering of 'depends on'
lines is not written down. Fix that.
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2018-October/232413.html
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Better late than never: let's thank Scaleway who provided some
excellent hosting conditions for our March 2018 Hackathon in Paris.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit removes Google and Mind as "Current sponsors" and credits
them as "Past sponsors" for the FOSDEM 2018 Buildroot Developers
Meeting.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Due to excessive spamming on Freenode, the IRC channel is currently
restricted to registered users. Since this may not be obvious for
people not familiar with IRC, let's mention it on our website, with a
link to the relevant documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Some users of kconfig need some packages to be built before their
kconfig infra be used.
For example, the linux kernel, starting with 4.16, needs flex and bison
to generate the parser code. Furthermore, starting with 4.18, it will
also need the cross-compiler before parsing the kconfig stuff, because
that calls the compiler to check its features.
Currently, this is broken, even the flex/bison ones, even though they
are listed, because there is no way to define dependencie that are
guaranteed before the (visual) configurators. For example:
$ make distclean
$ make menuconfig
--> enable the linux kernel, choose a defconfig, save, exit
$ make linux-menuconfig
[...]
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
YACC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
/bin/sh: bison: command not found
LEX scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
scripts/Makefile.lib:196: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c' failed
make[3]: *** [scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c] Error 127
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/bin/sh: flex: command not found
scripts/Makefile.lib:188: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c' failed
make[3]: *** [scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c] Error 127
Makefile:528: recipe for target 'rpc_defconfig' failed
make[2]: *** [rpc_defconfig] Error 2
linux/linux.mk:511: recipe for target '/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/linux-4.17.11/.config' failed
make[1]: *** [/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/buildroot/output/build/linux-4.17.11/.config] Error 2
Makefile:79: recipe for target '_all' failed
make: *** [_all] Error 2
So, we introduce a new type of dependencies for kconfig-based packages,
that are guaranteed to be built and installed before the (visual)
configurators are called.
Since those dependencies are phony targets and therefore always out of
date, a normal dependency would cause the .config target to be rebuilt
on each invocation of make. So we use an order-only pre-requisite, like
is done for the patch dependency.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat@cesnet.cz>
Tested-by: Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat@cesnet.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Currently, the wording in the manual instructs the user to generate a
tarball from "the contents of the +output/host+ directory".
This is pretty confusing, because taken literally, this would amount to
running a command like:
tar cf my-sdk.tar -C output/host/ .
This creates a tarbomb [0], which is very bad practice, because when
extracted, it creates multiple files in the current directory.
What one really wants to do, is create a tarball of the host/ directory,
with something like:
tar cf my-sdk.tar -C output host/
However, this is not much better, because the top-most directory would
have a very common name, host/, which is pretty easy to get conflict
with when it gets extracted.
So, we fix that mess by giving the top-most directory a recognisable
name, based on the target tuple, which we also use as the name of the
archive (suffixed with the usual +.tar.gz+.) We offer the user the
possibility to override that default by specifying the +BR2_SDK_PREFIX+
variable on the command line.
Since this is an output file, we place it in the images/ directory.
As some users expressed a very strong feeling that they do not want to
generate a tarball at all, and that doing so would badly hurt their
workflows [1], we actually prepare the SDK as was previously done, but
under the new, intermediate rule 'prepare-sdk'. The existing 'sdk' rule
obviously depend on that before generating the tarball.
We choose to make the existing rule to generate the tarball, and
introduce a new rule to just prepare the SDK, rather than keep the
existing rule as-is and introduce a new one to generate the tarball,
because it makes sense to have the simplest rule do the correct thing,
leaving advanced, power users use the longest command. If someone
already had a wrapper that called 'sdk' and expected just the host
directory to be prepared, then this is not broken; it just takes a bit
longer (gzip is pretty fast).
Update the manual accordingly.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#Tarbomb
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2018-June/thread.html#223377
and some messages in the ensuing thread...
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Stefan Becker <chemobejk@gmail.com>
Cc: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@impinj.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <<a href="mailto:yann.morin.1998@free.fr" target="_blank">yann.morin.1998@free.fr</a>><br>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Becker <chemobejk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <<a href="mailto:yann.morin.1998@free.fr" target="_blank">yann.morin.1998@free.fr</a>><br>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The oldest gcc that is known to work with current Buildroot is that of
RHEL 6, version 4.4.
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@bootlin.com>
