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Peter Korsgaard
eb04ed8e87 docs/news.html: announce dev meeting report
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-11-11 22:56:28 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
439f48736b docs/about.html: we support internal (e)glibc toolchains as well now
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-11-11 22:46:13 +01:00
Mischa Jonker
b3766198db docs/manual: Add version number to perl in prerequisites
Building host-bison needs perl 5.8.7+, as it uses the "-f" option
for site customization scripts. This feature was added in 5.8.7.

Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-11-11 15:06:34 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
fcdbeba035 manual: add some info on the POST_RSYNC hook
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-11-11 00:12:05 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
7ae2b8ef88 manual: split info on hooks to a separate section/file
Split out the information on hooks to a separate section (and source file).
Not only because the hooks are useful for all infrastructures (and thus
don't really fit specifically in the generic infrastructure section), but
also for clarity when the info on hooks will be expanded in later patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-11-11 00:11:40 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
e8ab39a7b5 infra: Add POST_RSYNC_HOOKS support
One of the use cases is for the 'local packages' to restore
the SCM info.  Some packages use this information to generate
version info during build time.  In this case, the local package
can have this hook to restore it by symbolic link for example.

[Thomas: update commit title]
Signed-off-by: Tzu-Jung Lee <tjlee@ambarella.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-11-11 00:10:45 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
3c33c11386 manual: clarify that Config.in comments should have correct dependencies
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-11-10 23:59:04 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
1ae1f27606 manual: github commits should be specified in full
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-11-02 16:16:47 +01:00
Samuel Martin
ee1565bf36 manual: customize-toolchain.txt: update internal backend section
Mention all supported C libraries by the internal Buildroot toolchain
backend.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-11-01 17:09:39 +01:00
Samuel Martin
1e4d9eb2d3 manual: developer-guide.txt: cleanup non-existing source
[Thomas: Added ThomasDS Acked-by, which was given on an earlier
version of the same patch.]

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
2013-11-01 17:07:10 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
462e9915fd manual generation: rename manual-txt into manual-text
The output extension and the generation messages refer to 'text', but the make
target was confusingly 'txt'. This patch changes the make target for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-11-01 16:57:34 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
6fb84874b2 manual generation: check dependencies first
To generate the manual, you need a few tools. If these are not present,
pretty cryptic error messages are given.
This patch adds a simple check for these dependencies, before attempting to
build the manual.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-11-01 16:41:04 +01:00
Tzu-Jung Lee
d1bca7c49c ccache: expose control interface via 'make ccache-options'
usage:
	# set cache limit size
	make CCACHE_OPTIONS="--max-size=5G" ccache-options

	# zero statistics counters
	make CCACHE_OPTIONS="--zero-stats" ccache-options

[Peter: drop the redundant ifeq]
Signed-off-by: Tzu-Jung Lee <tjlee@ambarella.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-27 10:30:10 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
3dab7ba7a0 website: get rid of 'Related Sites' list
As discussed on the dev day. These sites are not really directly related
to Buildroot.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-26 12:50:37 +02:00
Gustavo Zacarias
4513d78515 Makefile: revert BUILD_DIR export
Revert commit feb0877015
U-Boot uses $(BUILD_DIR) and causes issues, other packages might as
well. Fixes:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/1f6/1f65289d5c284caa82a4e9137613f792797ee08a/
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/6a5/6a5f77483e908dc96d08824cf9113402431bace7/

It should probably be named somewhat more uniquely.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-25 08:10:23 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
feb0877015 Makefile: export BUILD_DIR
$(BUILD_DIR) is a nice place to put files generated during the build.
With the advent of user-supplied step-hooks, they may want to store
some information on the build.

Export BUILD_DIR to that effect; update manual accordingly.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-24 08:47:16 +02:00
Ryan Barnett
75c01bf213 manual: update review process and patchwork
Adding more documentaiton based on discussion from the mailing list
in regards the buildroot review process and how patchworks can be
used to pull in patches for testing purposes.

Mailing list discussion:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2013-September/078170.html

Signed-off-by: Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-14 23:16:22 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
c3a832a7fb manual: add section about depending on target and toolchain options
Currently, the comments in Config.in files when depending on toolchain
options are not at all lined up.  This patch adds a section to the
documentation that explains which format is to be used.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-14 22:39:28 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
127c9bcc13 manual: rename section name of package lists
The original titles did no longer correspond with the actual menu names.
Additionally, choose a name that better reflects the fact that this is a
list.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-14 12:50:11 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
2c13d5bc60 package: add a <pkg>_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS variable
Converting the external toolchain logic into a package raises a very
special use case that wasn't handled by the package infrastructure:
the Blackfin toolchain is delivered as two tarballs instead of
one. Unfortunately <pkg>_SOURCE only allows to pass one tarball name.

However, we really want both tarballs to be known by the package
infrastructure, so that the normal 'source' and 'external-deps'
mechanism work fine.

In order to achieve this, we add a <pkg>_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS variable,
which allows a package to list other stuff it would like to see
downloaded, but that are otherwise not used by the package
infrastructure itself: it is up to the package to do it by itself.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-08 22:58:49 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
0c09053277 manual/known-issues.txt: fix s/Soucery/Sourcery/ typo
Reported-by: homas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-07 09:33:46 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
1360b6b4ef trivial: manual: fix typo formating --> formatting
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-06 21:45:07 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d191c91627 docs: update manual after Crosstool-NG backend removal
[Peter: remove a few more ctng references in customize-store.txt]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-06 20:53:58 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4aa9fb945f docs/manual: add a 'Known issues' chapter
Add a 'Known issues' chapter, which lists the exceptions I have
currently in the autobuilder scripts to avoid known problems from
occuring. I believe it is more useful to document them rather than
keeping them hidden in my autobuilder script.

[Peter: s/either/either use/]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2013-10-06 20:34:40 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
60cb290475 toolchain/wrapper: add option to print one argument per line
In case there are many arguments passed to the tools, the command line
can get very long, and difficult to parse visually.

For example, the Linux kernel passes a lot of arguments to gcc (at least
45, which gives 53 with our hard-coded args). Looking at such a command
line is daunting.

So, add the possibility to print each argument on its own line.

Also, enclose all args between single quotes, so the command line
can be safely copy-pasted without special chars (spaces, $) being
inrerpreted by the shell.

Add blurb about toolchain-wrapper to documentation at the same
time.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-22 11:47:35 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
50a18b63c9 manual generation: change capitalization of messages
When generating the manual, you see following messages:

>>>   Generating HTML manual...
>>>   Generating Split HTML manual...
>>>   Generating PDF manual...
>>>   Generating Text manual...
>>>   Generating EPUB manual...

and with this patch the capitalization is changed so that it becomes:

>>>   Generating HTML manual...
>>>   Generating split HTML manual...
>>>   Generating PDF manual...
>>>   Generating text manual...
>>>   Generating ePUB manual...

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-20 15:16:02 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
64a50ee427 trivial: manual: multimedia is no longer a subdirectory
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-18 13:17:21 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
b143b6d01e trivial: manual: fix grammar of 'to express'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-18 13:15:46 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
06b38a7ff9 docs: website: update for 2013.08.1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-17 14:24:39 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
0b9676b691 docs/news.html: Announce next Buildroot developer days meeting
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-16 22:40:12 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
80c9051a48 docs/news.html: add 2013.08 announcement mail link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-16 22:32:07 +02:00
Ralph Siemsen
f7da9ee5bd Trivial documentation fix for Signed-off-by
Make consistent the capitalization and punctuation of Signed-of-by examples.

Signed-off-by: Ralph Siemsen <ralphs@netwinder.org>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-16 15:43:00 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
4bfb52c114 docs/patch-policy.txt: fix missing word
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-16 09:00:15 +02:00
Gustavo Zacarias
457620232e docs/manual: add CVS support documentation
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-13 00:07:07 +02:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
62146ea3ad change package tarball compression to xz whenever possible
[Peter: leave change xz tarball format to not end up with circular deps]
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-08 22:44:23 +02:00
Jérôme Pouiller
741cbccb74 Fix build reproducibility in Make 3.82
Make 3.82 no longer sort the result of wildcards (see
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.bugs/4260). This may break
build reproducibility.

This patch sort results of wildcards to ensure reproducibility.

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-06 23:27:42 +02:00
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
Peter Korsgaard
53d8d9c14a Update for 2013.08
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-08-31 00:33:13 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
4e4a0a3477 Prepare for 2013.08-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-08-30 00:03:48 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
7120319a51 Prepare for 2013.08-rc2
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-08-16 13:10:30 +02:00
Samuel Martin
5664c4af5c manual: minor typos and formating fixes
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-08-10 10:25:27 +02:00
A.R.D
d2a50dda7d manual: tips: document how to build the manual
Signed-off-by: A.R.D. <contact@team-ard.com>
Cc: Willy Lambert <lambert.willy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-08-10 10:24:33 +02:00
Vinicius Tinti
9cbeb34106 manual: contribute.txt: add patch revision section
Improve the contribute manual section by adding an explanation about patch
review and version.

The section now provides advices in how to respond maintainers requests and how
to proceed on replying them.

[Thomas: further small modifications.]
Signed-off-by: Vinicius Tinti <viniciustinti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-08-10 10:23:27 +02:00
Stephan Hoffmann
3d36ae7e8d manual: mention LIBFOO_EXTRACT_CMDS
[Samuel: add precision about non-tar archive]
[Thomas: reword with more details. Fix commit title]
Signed-off-by: Stephan Hoffmann <sho@relinux.de>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-08-07 00:14:20 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a7d58609ac Prepare for 2013.08-rc1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-08-05 11:37:42 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
f1f97b3a05 system: add option to pass extra args to post-build and post-image scripts
It can be useful to have different configuration use the same post-build
and/or post-image scripts as they share a common infrastructure, but yet
have minor differentiation.

This option allows passing zero or more additional arguments to each
post-build or post-image script.

The same set of extra arguments are passed to all scripts, it is not
possible to pass different arguments to each script.

[Peter: fix help text, post-image gets called with the images dir]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-07-10 08:52:21 +02:00
Gustavo Zacarias
5c7fb70a49 website: remove dead udhcp link
The udhcp.busybox.net site is gone, it's now pointing to bugzilla.
udhcp has been a part of busybox for some time now.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-07-08 14:50:01 +02:00
Gustavo Zacarias
f384f6f3e5 docs: linuxdevices is dead, switch to linuxgizmos
linuxdevices.com has been dead for some time now when it was bought out.
Switch to linuxgizmos.com which is the new page of the author.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-07-07 21:14:49 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
30224b8ee2 docs/manual: update to mention eglibc support in Buildroot toolchain backend
[Peter: minor tweak]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-07-04 11:08:41 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a5e92d92e7 uclibc: convert to the package infrastructure
[Peter: update manual to match]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-07-04 00:13:23 +02:00
Alexandre Belloni
07278078a6 Add documentation for the header style
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-06-16 21:40:18 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
86bfe7cca9 manual: github: merge tag/commit ID examples
And reword as suggested by Samuel.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-06-07 10:48:45 +02:00
Spenser Gilliland
484b6dd8a3 manual: correct error in github tarball information
Updates to manual for bug 6302

Signed-off-by: Spenser Gilliland <spenser@gillilanding.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-06-07 09:32:28 +02:00
Sonic Zhang
51dea66f96 doc: Add txt document for the new package-specific FLAT_STACKSIZE option.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-06-06 22:27:49 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
106e7f70b2 docs/news.html: add 2013.05 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-06-02 16:11:21 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
615fd9b0f3 Update for 2013.05
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-05-31 22:29:04 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
26b11df79c Update copyright info for 2013
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-05-31 22:24:52 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
c92a369fe6 Update for 2013.05-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-05-25 22:23:57 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
cfcbfa2c60 Update for 2013.05-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-05-15 21:05:00 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
867aa7f987 news.html: add 2013.05-rc1 annoucement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-05-15 20:45:05 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
92651931e7 Update for 2013.05-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-05-08 15:51:45 +02:00
Samuel Martin
af1f14daa8 manual: do not track generated files
Since there is no need to edit the generated list, we don't need
to keep the files under git control, so remove the existing lists.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-05-04 12:50:14 +02:00
Samuel Martin
7be1eb447a manual: add a make target 'manual-update-lists'
The generated lists are automatically updated when building the manual.

[Peter: fix typos]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: indentation, remove temp dir, intro to host utils]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-05-04 12:39:27 +02:00
Samuel Martin
88f2b4360a manual: cleanup appendix.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: one more stuff->feature fixup]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-05-04 12:34:29 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
1f3af04db7 packages: add ability for packages to create users
Packages that install daemons may need those daemons to run as a non-root,
or an otherwise non-system (eg. 'daemon'), user.

Add infrastructure for packages to create users, by declaring the FOO_USERS
variable that contain a makedev-syntax-like description of the user(s) to
add.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Cam Hutchison <camh@xdna.net>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-04-25 22:56:42 +02:00
Samuel Martin
1ce3dfb84f manual: add manual generation date/git revision in the manual text
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-03-27 09:54:59 +01:00
Tilman Keskinöz
6b9bdfbba3 manual: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Tilman Keskinöz <arved@arved.at>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-03-25 17:52:40 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d8f9237553 dependencies: remove a few useless mandatory dependencies
awk, bison, flex, makeinfo, gettext should be built as dependencies of
packages when needed. In practice, even the toolchain build doesn't
need any of these, and only a few packages do require them.

It is not needed to list gzip and bzip2 since they are already checked
through ${DL_TOOLS}: whenever a package needs gzip or bzip2 for its
extraction, the dependency is added.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-03-24 13:51:21 +01:00
Simon Dawson
5538e47662 rework patch model
At the Buildroot Developers Meeting (4-5 February 2013, in Brussels) a change
to the patch logic was discussed. See

http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2013

for details. In summary:

* For patches stored in the package directory, if
  package/<pkg>/<version>/ does exist, apply package/<pkg>/<version>/*.patch,
  otherwise, apply package/<pkg>/*.patch
* For patches stored in the global patches directory, if
  $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/<version>/ does exist, apply
  $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/<version>/*.patch, otherwise, apply
  $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/*.patch

This patch adds the new BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR configuration item, and reworks
the generic package infrastructure to implement the new patch logic.

[Peter: fixup doc nits as pointed out by Thomas]
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-03-19 23:10:49 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
15ace1a845 Update for 2013.02
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:48:28 +01:00
Stephan Hoffmann
6dc0596274 Manual: add empty line after header in .mk files
Signed-off-by: Stephan Hoffmann <sho@relinux.de>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:37:58 +01:00
Samuel Martin
9bdf69b49d working-with: board support
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:37:49 +01:00
Samuel Martin
0ccfbb5db9 manual: misc. post-{build, image} scripts fixes
* update post-build scripts mechanism that now support several scripts
* fix formatting

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:37:44 +01:00
Samuel Martin
7a26f2f663 manual: minor fix in patch-policy.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:37:12 +01:00
Samuel Martin
5b02e6cad8 manual: fix cross-refs
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:02:53 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
d65bb7e315 Update for 2013.02-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-26 23:19:03 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
8290a6261a Update for 2013.02-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-19 22:05:42 +01:00
Samuel Martin
58e2e9d804 manual: minor fix in patch-policy.txt
[Peter: Drop *.patch.<arch> description as noted by Thomas]
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 22:53:49 +01:00
Samuel Martin
4b95b369b1 manual: sprinkle with some calls to MESSAGE
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 22:51:03 +01:00
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
Peter Korsgaard
0ec1cf5a51 news.html: add 2013.02-rc1 annoucement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-10 13:54:11 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
e68acefb3b Update for 2013.02-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-10 11:07:12 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
fced72cc72 docs/news.html: announce dev meeting report
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-10 10:58:14 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
580225af20 package: remove scripts listed in <pkg>_CONFIG_SCRIPTS from target
The <foo>-config scripts are useless on the target, since they are
only needed for development, so we remove them automatically.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-08 22:32:53 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4705347ddf package: rename <pkg>_CONFIG_FIXUP to <pkg>_CONFIG_SCRIPTS
This commit renames the newly introduced <pkg>_CONFIG_FIXUP variable
to <pkg>_CONFIG_SCRIPTS, for two reasons:

 * <pkg>_CONFIG_SCRIPTS will not only "fixup" the scripts in
   $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin, but also remove them from
   $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin. So it is not only about doing a "fixup".

 * On the principle, it is strange that the variable carries an
   indication of the action that will take place on those files. It
   should rather be named to say "Here are the <foo>-config scripts",
   and let the package infrastructure decide if it should fix them up,
   remove them, etc.

This commit also updates the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-08 22:31:49 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
afea3037ef rootfs-overlay: also exclude .empty files
This makes it possible to put empty directories in the overlay.
Thanks to Aras Vaichas for pointing that out.

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>
2013-02-08 22:11:24 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
bd86e4ff73 docs/manual: slightly reword the solutions to customize rootfs
The order of the solutions to customize the root filesystem is
changed: we now mention the post-build script mechanism *before* the
custom root filesystem skeleton mechanism, because the former is
preferred over the latter.

In addition to this, we give a few more details about direct
customization of the root filesystem in output/target, and about the
custom target skeleton solution.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-08 22:06:41 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
598fe67213 docs/manual: no longer mention the package/customize thing
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-08 22:06:41 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
04dea0c48b docs/manual: mention the new post-image mechanism
[Peter: fix minor typos]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.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>
2013-02-08 22:06:41 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
1ed4996346 Make savedefconfig save to a configured file.
Store BR2_DEFCONFIG in .config, and use it to update the original input
defconfig file after updating the configuration.  When a config is
created by using the BR2_DEFCONFIG=... option, this is saved in the
.config file; later runs of savedefconfig will update that same location.
It is also possible to configure this place in the interactive
configuration.

The BR2_DEFCONFIG value itself is not saved into the generated
defconfig, since Kconfig considers it at its default. This is
intentional, to avoid hard-coding an absolute path in the defconfig.
It will anyway be set again when the defconfig is used with the
'make BR2_DEFCONFIG=... defconfig' command.

As a side-effect of this change, the *config options have been moved out
of the BR2_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG condition.  This doesn't make any functional
difference, because the .config is still not read for the *config targets.
However, the defconfig and savedefconfig targets do need to include
.config now, which makes them slightly slower.

[Peter: slightly tweak help text]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-05 21:43:51 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
7f86089292 target/generic: add filesystem overlay option
The filesystem overlay is a tree that is copied over the target fs
after building everything - which is currently usually done in the
post-build script.

[Peter: don't ignore missing directories]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-05 21:35:33 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
a0ad75a125 manual: add section about storing the configuration.
Reuse part of board-support.txt, and remove that one because it
was unused.

[Peter: minor tweaks to text]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-05 21:04:28 +01:00
Stefan Fröberg
834f9311aa pkg-infra: add <pkg>_CONFIG_FIXUP to fix *-config files
This patch will add <pkg>_CONFIG_FIXUP variable to buildroot infra.

It's purpose is to inform buildroot that the package in question
contains some $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/*-config files and that we
want to automatically fix prefixes of such files.

It is often the case that many packages call these
files during their configuration step to determine 3rd party
library package locations and any flags needed to link against them.

For example:
Some package might try to check the existense and linking flags
of NSPR package by calling $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/nspr-config --prefix.
Without this fix. NSPR would return /usr/ as it's prefix which is
wrong when cross-compiling.
Correct would be $(STAGING_DIR)/usr.

All packages that have <pkg>_INSTALL_STAGING = YES defined and
also install some config file(s) into $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin must
hereafter also define <pkg>_CONFIG_FIXUP with the correspondig
filename(s).

For example:

DIVINE_CONFIG_FIXUP = divine-config

or for multiple files:

IMAGEMAGICK_CONFIG_FIXUP = Magick-config Wand-config

Signed-off-by: Stefan Fröberg <stefan.froberg@petroprogram.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-04 23:47:34 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d17d170856 docs/manual: mention the Eclipse integration
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-01-14 16:33:33 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
1300cb5562 Makefile: don't export O to the environment
Several projects use the kernel style O=<dir> syntax to build out of tree,
and atleast uClibc doesn't check that it was explictly passed on the command
line, so setting it in the environment breaks the build.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-01-14 10:04:21 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
2b0f455254 Makefile: export a few variables to help support scripts
Support scripts (in support/) may need to parse the .config file, so give
them an easy access to it, by exporting BUILDROOT_CONFIG with the fully-
qualified path to .config.

Also, post-build scripts may need to reference a few locations, so export
those, too.

Note: we export both O and BASE_DIR. Although they are the same, BASE_DIR
is used internally, while O is used on the command line, which makes it a
bit ambiguous to know which to use. As users use O= on the command line,
they will probably tend to use that in their post-build scripts.

Update doc accordingly.

[Peter: fixed typo]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-01-13 23:09:05 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
0ff2e73c05 website: Announce the upcoming Buildroot Developers Meeting
[Peter: fix typo]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-01-12 19:56:25 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
b6009b94ca docs/manual: update to mention the multiple patches support
After the modification of the <pkg>_PATCH semantic, let's update the
documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-01-07 21:31:07 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
31ff7b5eac docs: 2012.11.1 is out
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-01-03 22:02:10 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
f1d44593a0 docs/manual: small fixes and enhancements to adding generic packages
Add overall description of LIBFOO_DEVICES and LIBFOO_PERMISSIONS.
Fix line numbers.

Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-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>
2012-12-30 22:39:13 +01:00