For various reasons, we've always suggested users to avoid using a
branch as version string for their packages, because it does not work
as a they would expect:
- it is not reproducible, because the branch may change between two
builds that are done at different times;
- it does not even follow the branch, as Buildroot anyway generates
a local tarball, which it will reuse on subsequent builds.
Furthermore, since we fetch and not pull, any existing local branch
is not updated.
Yet, until recently, using a branch name would just work (with the
above limitations): the git tree was cloned, the branch checked out,
and the tarball created.
But with the advent of the git caching, using a branch name does not
work anymore. Indeed, we now do a git-fetch, and that does not create
a local master branch. So we can't check out master, because it does
not exist locally. And for other branches, as noticed above, the local
branch does not get udpated to the remote one.
Furthermore, the local branches are only created by chance, again as a
side-effect of trying to fetch the "special refs".
So, we can't say that we reliably support the use of a branch name.
Update the manual to state that using a branch does not work. Remove
the 'stable' example, as it looked like the name of a stable branch;
instead, replace it with a version string that ressemble a tag.
Fix the layout of the manual by making the version examples an actual
bulleted list.
Note: the above is only entirely true for git. For Mercurial, CVS and
subversion, the status may be mixed, but nonetheless, using branches is
still a bad idea, if at least because it is not reproducible, and
because Buildroot does not even follow the branch. So, we do not
differentiate between the various SCMs, and just flatly state that using
a branch name is not supported.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: slight rephrasing in error message, update manual]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The website advertises a favicon in PNG format, but we don't actually
provide one. From docs/website/header.html:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.png">
So add one. Generated by:
convert -geometry 32x32! docs/website/images/logo_small.png \
docs/website/favicon.png
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The clipboard javascript code causes an error:
Uncaught TypeError: Illegal constructor
at buildroot.js:58
Which is caused by a recent change in upstream clipboard.js:
https://github.com/zenorocha/clipboard.js/releases/tag/v2.0.0
Changes constructor from new Clipboard() to new ClipboardJS()
The issue was that we were using the master version of clipboard.js instead
of a specific release. Fix it by using the 1.7.1 version (latest release
before the constructor change) instead.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
And add two references to it: in "Submitting patches" and in "Adding new
packages to Buildroot" sections.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The graph-depends was not very consistent in colors vs. colours: some
parts were using colours, some parts were using colors.
Let's settle on the US spelling, colors.
This change the user-visble option --colours to --colors, but it is
unlikely that a lot of users customize the colors through
BR2_GRAPH_DEPS_OPTS, so this user interface change is considered
reasonable.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This allows using <PKG>_SRCDIR_OVERRIDE_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS in local.mk to
skip copying parts of source trees unneeded for building. For example,
when developing WebKitGTK+, it's handy to skip copying all the tests and
other build directories, which are huge:
WEBKITGTK_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR = /home/aperez/WebKit
WEBKITGTK_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS = \
--exclude JSTests --exclude ManualTests \
--exclude PerformanceTests --exclude WebDriverTests \
--exclude WebKitBuild --exclude WebKitLibraries \
--exclude WebKit.xcworkspace --exclude Websites \
--exclude Examples
This saves a good chunk of time when rsync is used for the first time to
copy the source tree over before building.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@igalia.com>
[Arnout: move documentation to the end of the section]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
So far, we were using the 'go install' mechanism to build a package
and have its binary installed in
$$($(2)_WORKSPACE)/bin/linux_$$(GO_GOARCH). This worked fine when
building on x86-64 for ARM, but failed when building on x86-64 for
x86-64 because the binaries were installed in $$($(2)_WORKSPACE)/bin/.
Instead of doing some complicated logic to guess whether Go is going
to put our binaries in $$($(2)_WORKSPACE)/bin/ or in
$$($(2)_WORKSPACE)/bin/linux_$$(GO_GOARCH), we revert back to using
"go build", as it was done before the introduction of the golang
package infrastructure. "go build" lets us pass explicitly the
destination path of the binary to be generated.
There's just one complexity with how to decide on the name of the
binary that should be produced, and we have two cases:
- <pkg>_BUILD_TARGETS is the default, i.e ".". In this case we assume
a single binary is produced by "go build", and we name if after the
lower case package name. We allow this to be overridden thanks to
<pkg>_BIN_NAME.
- <pkg>_BUILD_TARGETS is non-default, and typically contains
something like "foo bar" or "cmd/foo cmd/bar". In this case, we
assume the binaries to be produced are "foo" and "bar", i.e we take
the non-directory part of the build target to name the binaries.
Because we're using this -o option, we no longer need to explicitly
create the binary directory, it is done by "go build".
Fixes:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/1f9cd7c48e8c8f41326632a9c0de83915d72c45b/
[Peter: use $(or instead of $(if as suggested by Arnout]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
toolchain-common.in is a Config.in file with an uncommon name.
It is just included by toolchain/Config.in, and toolchain/Config.in is
not that long, so instead of renaming the file, merge it to
toolchain/Config.in.
Move the raw contents from the file to the exact location it is
currently included in order to not change the order in the menu.
Update the references in the manual as well.
Suggested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
This patch adds the documentation for the golang infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Extract dependencies are dependencies that must be ready before the
extract step of a package, i.e for tools that are needed to extract
packages themselves. Current examples of such tools are host-tar,
host-lzip and host-xz.
They are currently handled through DEPENDENCIES_HOST_PREREQ. However,
this mechanism has a number of drawbacks:
- First and foremost, because host-tar/host-lzip/host-xz are not
listed in the dependencies of packages, the package infrastructure
does not know it should rsync them in the context of per-package
SDK.
- Second, there is no dependency handling *between* them. I.e, we
have no mechanism that says host-tar should be built before
host-lzip, while it is in fact the case: if you need to build
host-lzip, you need to extract a tarball, so you may need host-tar
if your system tarball is not capable enough.
For those reasons, it makes sense to add explicit support for "extract
dependencies" in the package infrastructure, through the
<pkg>_EXTRACT_DEPENDENCIES variable. It is unlikely this variable will
ever be used by a package .mk file, but it will be used internally by
the package infrastructure.
[Peter: fix typo in manual]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Ninja understands the `-j` option which defines how many jobs are
run in parallel.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
When using a merged /usr, the kernel module path is really
/usr/lib/modules, as /lib is a symlink to usr/lib .
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Some packages (mostly, out-of-tree) may want to install binary blobs for
another architecture, outside the locations we currently exclude, like
in /opt or whatever...
Add support in check-bin-arch to accept any arbitrary location, that
individual package can each request to excude from the check, when they
are installed.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
We have quite a bit more than "hundreds of packages" nowadays:
find package -name \*.mk | wc -l
2285
So adjust the text to say 'several thousand' instead.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Free Electrons has been renamed to Bootlin, so update the
Documentation section of our website describing the Buildroot training
course to use the new company name and domain name.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
utils/check-package complains as follows:
package/rustc/rustc.mk:10: possible typo: RUST_TARGET_NAME -> *RUSTC*
package/rustc/rustc.mk:18: possible typo: RUST_HOST_NAME -> *RUSTC*
As RUST_{HOST,TARGET}_NAME are related to the Rust compiler, it
sounds sensible to rename them to RUSTC_{HOST,TARGET}_NAME.
So update all rust related packages to use the new variables.
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Add instructions for adding a package which uses Cargo as build system.
[Peter: fix indentation]
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Simply a matter of updating the year, since it's again Google and Mind
for the FOSDEM2018 developer meeting.
Also add the 2017 sponsorship to the "Past sponsors" section.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add instructions for adding a package which uses the Meson build system.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This reverts commit 1e5a8916b2.
The idea was that the version string can be derived because we know the
package name.
However, this patch does not account for the fact that $(pkgname) always
points to the latest pacakge scanned, which in all other situation we're
using it, is the current package, because it is used inside one ot he
xxx-inner macros that are $(eval)ualed. So $(pkgname) is evaluated
"early" and gets the expected value.
However, the github value is not in one of those macros, so it gets
evaluated "late", when doing the actual download. So, by that time,
$(pkgname) will expand to the last package scanned, which is actuall the
manual (without a br2-external tree).
That would require that the _SITE variable be assigned with the :=
assignment operator. This is weird, because that would make it the only
variable to require that, but only when using the github helper, which
is even less obvious and would cause a lot of trouble...
The obvious fixup would seem to be to use $(PKG) instead, because that
already contains the upper-case package name that vcan be used as a
prefix to variables.
However, that does not work either, because we have a check that forbids
a trsailing slash in _SITE, check that is done in pacakge/pkg-generic,
inside the xxx-inner macro, during the $(eval) call.
And at that time, PKG is not yet defined, because it is only defined for
an actual recipe.
So we can't seem to have a workable solution. So, just revert the patch.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reiterate once more that <packagename>_PATCH variable can point
to an arbitrary URL, not just to a path relative to <packagename>_SITE.
While we're at it, also explain that the patch should be added to the
.hash file.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mukhin <alexander.i.mukhin@gmail.com>
[Arnout: add sentence about .hash file.]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Currently it is always required to add package version as an argument to
the github helper. Since the version is always defined as PKG_VERSION,
drop this argument and generate it automatically inside the helper
routine.
The github helper function is extended to support both 2 and 3 argument
variants (ie. either use the provided package version argument or
automatically substitute with PKG_VERSION if not available), which can
make the transition of the package files easier as well allows using the
3-argument variant outside of package definitions.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
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>
... 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>
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>
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>
The bugtracker is intended to be used for bug reports only, so clarify
it's not meant to be used for "any problem".
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
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>
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>
[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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Currently the buildroot website is not leveraging common
techniques to have a better loading speed (browser caching,
gzip compression, deflating).
This commit provides an .htaccess files with all the needed to
enable mentioned features. This .htaccess only works if the
webserver has deflate, expires and headers modules enabled.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit limits results from the javascript query for selecting
messages from the mailing list. It was not limited before.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
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>
Gmane mailing list infrastructure is broken from some time,
switching to nabble both for rss and search services.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Google deprecated feed api to cenvert rss to json, switching
to yahoo yql. This patch also reorganize the javascript code
to accomodate the fixings.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch bumps jquery and bootstrap to the latest versions.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit updates the sponsors page on our web site to indicate that
Google and Mind are sponsoring the Buildroot Developers Meeting at
FOSDEM 2017 in Brussels.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Free Electrons sponsored the Buildroot Developers Meeting at ELCE 2016
in Berlin by making a donation to IN-Berlin, the organization who hosted
the 3-day event.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit updates the Free Electrons logo of the Buildroot website to
the new logo of the company.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
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>
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>
