This patch adds the documentation for the new makedevs
recursive syntax.
[Thomas: s/folder/directory/ as suggested by Yann.]
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The Buildroot manual is currently wrong when describing how patches
are applied: it says that <packagename>-*.patch is applied, and that
<packagename>-<seq>-*.patch is the recommended name for patches. This
is incorrect, since we're now using just <seq>-*.patch. This commit
adjusts the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
As discussed in the FOSDEM2015 BR developer meeting, the output of
'make help' is too long for comfortable reading. To shorten it, split
off the list of defconfigs in a new target, 'list-defconfigs'.
Declare the new target as phony.
Add 'list-defconfigs' to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
At the time we introduced hashes, we did not want to be too harsh in the
beginning, and give people some time to adapt and accept the hashes. So
we so far only whined^Wwarned about a missing hash (when the .hash file
exists).
Some time has passed now, and people are still missing updating hashes
when bumping packages.
Let's make that warning a little bit more annoying...
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>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Add support to explicitly state that an archive has no hash.
This can be used for archives downloaded from a repository, like a
git-clone or a subversion checkout, or using the github helper.
This will come in handy when we'll eventually make hashes mandatory as
soon as a .hash file exists: for some packages, like gcc, some versions
are downloaded as archives from upstream, while other versions may come
from a GitHub repository (via the github herlper).
In this case, a .hash file would exist, that contains hashes for the
downloaded tarballs, but archives downloaded from the repository would
not have a hash (since it is currently not possible to have reproducible
such archives). So, we'd need a way to explicitly state there is no
hash, on purpose, for those archives.
So, add 'none' as a new type of hash.
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>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When downloading from a repository, we have no way to ensure the
reproducibility of the generated archives, so we can't check the hashes.
Do not specifiy a hash file in those cases.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Switch from the ACL package example to RRDTOOL since ACL has no dual
(depends + select) dependencies any more and doesn't fit the example
scenario.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: "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: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Francois Perrad <fperrad@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit updates the Buildroot manual for the variables used to
indicate where to download the source code from:
- It updates the description of <pkg>_SOURCE to make it clear that
Buildroot assume that the tarball is hosted at <pkg>_SITE.
- It updates the description of <pkg>_PATCH to indicate that not only
file names (assumed to be hosted at <pkg>_SITE) can be used, but
also full URLs. This allows to match with what the current code is
doing.
- It updates the description of <pkg>_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS to also
indicate that full URLs are now accepted, following the change made
in the previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
+ rearrange the structure a bit by adding a new paragraph for the Config
files
Signed-off-by: Jan Heylen <heyleke@gmail.com>
[ThomasDS:
- clarify commit title
- add list continuations to fix indentation of Config.in.host details]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
For some cmake based packages, like GNURadio, it's forbidden to do the
compilation directly in the sources directory. This patch add a new
variable to specify, if needed, the name of a sub-directory used to compile.
[Thomas: put the documentation at the right place in the manual, not
in the middle of the <pkg>_CONF_OPTS description.]
Signed-off-by: Gwenhael Goavec-Merou <gwenhael.goavec-merou@trabucayre.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The recommended form is without the trailing slash. Buildroot will add a slash
between FOO_SITE and FOO_SOURCE as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add reinstall target information to package-make-target.txt.
[Thomas: update to take into account the fact that we now have a
single <pkg>-reinstall target.]
Signed-off-by: Doug Kehn <rdkehn@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Johan Oudinet <johan.oudinet@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: split the doc into its own patch]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Document it as are LIBFOO_INSTALL_STAGING and LIBFOO_INSTALL_TARGET.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Since a while, the semantic of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB has been changed
from "prefer static libraries when possible" to "use only static
libraries". The former semantic didn't make much sense, since the user
had absolutely no control/idea of which package would use static
libraries, and which packages would not. Therefore, for quite some
time, we have been starting to enforce that BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB
should really build everything with static libraries.
As a consequence, this patch renames BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to
BR2_STATIC_LIBS, and adjust the Config.in option accordingly.
This also helps preparing the addition of other options to select
shared, shared+static or just static.
Note that we have verified that this commit can be reproduced by
simply doing a global rename of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to
BR2_STATIC_LIBS plus adding BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB to Config.in.legacy.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
The cmake-package documentation was referring to
BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIBS, while the option is actually named
BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB. This commit fixes this mistake.
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To ease generating patches, we now use a naming convention that is in
line with what git-format-patch does, that is:
- do not prefix patches with the package name
- prefix patches with a 4-digit mber
- start numbering at 0001
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This won't change the output, it's only a style issue.
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>
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>
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>
State that it should be a space separated list and fix the example.
Also reduce the number of dash used to 4.
[Thomas: replace tab by space, as noted by Yann.]
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The patchwork website needs the trailing slash, otherwise it returns a 404.
Reported-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Explicitly state that the github helper should not be used when there is
a release tarball.
Properly render the list by separating it from the previous paragraph.
[Peter: fix typo as pointed out by Maxime]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch documents the CMake options preset by the cmake-package
infrastructure.
[Thomas: minor wording tweak.]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: slightly reword according to the help text.]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Add a little comment regarding the uses of the github helper for the releases.
[Arnout: extend the comment a little]
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
[Peter: move periods outside paranthesis as suggested by Thomas De Schampheleire]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
As suggested by Thomas: the AsciiDoc options we use ensure we get a sane
output of the document. We want that configuration to be applied to
other documents as well.
Up until now, it was implicit that the configuration was applied to
our manual, becasue we only supported document-specific configuration,
and the configuration we had was in our manual dir, so we got to use it.
But now, we can render other documents, especially ones from
br2-external, and we want those to also use the default configuration
from Buildroot, but still be able to provide their own customisation.
So, always add Buildroot's configuration first, if available, before we
append the document's configuration.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently, it is not possible to use $(@D) in documents' hooks, because
there is no actual target file for the copying rule.
So, use the same mechanism as for generic-package.
We do not touch the target file, so it is easy to regenerate the manual
without calling the -clean rule first.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Rename the GENDOC infrastructure so that it more closely matches the way
we handle the packages infras.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Move the GENDOC infra to its own file, so it is even less tied to our
manual document, so that it is more obvious that GENDOC is an infra like
our packages infras, and 'manual' is a document like we have packages.
Ideally, this new file should better go in docs/ rather than in package/ .
However, docs/ is already full of our website stuff, so adding it in
there would just serve to clutter the website.
So, let's just put alongside the other infrastructures, in package/ .
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Acked-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>
Our manual does not use external filters in asciidoc, so we are happy
with just looking for resources from our source tree.
However, other documents (like ones in br2-external) may use such
filters, to generate diagrams, graphs...
External filters generate their output files in the output directory, so
we must also look for resources in there.
Note: external filters in asccidoc are used thus:
["filter-name"]
----
Text to be rendered
----
In the future, our own manual may even make use of filters to include
some of the graphs we generate, to store in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Also reorder a bit the definition of the variables, to more resemble
a package. Yet a bit more...
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Allow documents to define two hooks:
- DOC_CHECK_EXTRA_DEPENDENCIES_HOOKS
to check for extra dependencies required by this document
- DOC_CHECK_EXTRA_DEPENDENCIES_FMT_HOOKS
ditto, but for the specific format
- DOC_POST_EXTRACT_HOOKS:
to run additional actions to fill-in the build directory
(Replace 'DOC' with the uppercase name of the document, and 'FMT' with
the format.)
This is supposed to replace the current use of overloading the internal
dependency rules, and makes GENDOC behave yet a bit more like the
package infrastructure.
Note that GENDOC_INNER already has the uppercase name as an argument,
whereas GENDOC does not, so the two foreach loops are not exactly
similar (for now.)
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Those rules are generic, and not specific to our manual, we want them
always called:
- manual-check-dependencies
- manual-check-dependencies-pdf
So, rename them to be generic to gendoc.
Cascade the document's dependency checking to call those rules, too.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Move the rules specific to our own manual, so that they do not interfere
with the generic rules of GENDOC.
Separate them with a shiny header. ;-)
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Acked-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>
GENDOC_INNER still has one hard-coded path to the document's directory:
the asciidoc .conf files.
Add a new argument to GENDOC_INNER to pass the directory of the
document.
Notes:
- this makes for overly-long lines, but splitting is not possible,
otherwise the first argument on the continuation line would get (at
least) a leading space or tab, and that would break either or all of
the variables names, the dependency rules, or the filenames we look
for. A future patch will further clean this up (see: docs/asciidoc: call
$(pkgname) and $(pkgdir) in a single place.)
- this means that another document would be missing our tweaks from
asciidoc-text.conf to not render images and sanely render hyperlinks.
But that was already the case anyway, since we were using docs/$(1)/ to
search for that file. A further patch will allow us to have such
configuration in a common place.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Avoids hard-coding document's resources in GENDOC_INNER, so we can
generate another document with different resources (if any).
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently, GENDOC_INNER hard-codes some variables to have the name of the
document in them:
MANUAL_$(2)_ASCIIDOC_CONF
MANUAL_$(2)_ASCIIDOC_OPTS
MANUAL_$(2)_A2X_OPTS
MANUAL_$(2)_INSTALL_CMDS
...
Also, it defines some dependency on the generation rule, onto:
manual-check-dependencies
manual-check-dependencies-$(3)
manual-prepare-sources
This is problematic, as it is not possible to have another document
generated with the GENDOC infra, or it would trigger the rules, and use
the variables for our own document, 'manual'.
Add a new argument to GENDOC_INNER to be the uppercase name of the
document, much like it is done for the PKG_*_INNER functions. Replace
any reference to 'manual' with the currently passed named of the current
document, $(1).
The remaining references to 'manual' are on purpose, as they really
pertain to our manual.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Copying the document's source files is a generic GENDOC action, that
will be common to all documents, so the dependency rule should be
handled in GENDOC, rather than letting all documents duplicate it.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Move the manual-update-lists .PHONY declaration out of GENDOC, since not
all the documents may have an -update-lists rule.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The document's main file is already part of MANUAL_SOURCES, so no need
to explicitly depend on it.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Acked-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>
Move the creation of $(BUILD_DIR)/manual and the rsyncing of the
sources into GENDOC.
This is is needed so that GENDOC can be easily used to generate another
document, without requiring that document to duplicate the copying rules.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Since dd935d6 (gendoc infra: use $(pkgname) instead of explicitly
passing 'manual', the GENDOC infra no longer expect any argument.
Remove the stray comment.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Acked-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>
The PDF manual generation reaches the default xsltproc's template
recursion limit when processing the target package list; this makes the
PDF manual generation fail [1-3].
This limit can be raised with the '--maxvars' option. Unfortunately,
this option is not correctly handled in the latest xsltproc/libxslt
release (1.1.28), but this bug is already fixed in the libxslt
repository [4].
This patch disables the PDF manual generation (makes it warn with a
meaningful error message) when the xsltproc program found in the PATH
does not support the --maxvars option.
So, one can still generate the PDF manual if he/she extends PATH with
the location of a working xsltproc, by running:
$ PATH=/path/to/custom-xsltproc/bin:${PATH} make manual-pdf
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-August/104390.html
[2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-August/104418.html
[3] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-August/104421.html
[4] 5af7ad7453
Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: move the assignment block out of GENDOC_INNER, no
need to retest for each type of each document: it's always the same answer;
make it a warning as per Thomas DS. suggestion]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Though the --destination-dir option works as expected, a2x displays the
following message when generating the pdf and text manual:
a2x: WARNING: --destination-dir option is only applicable to HTML based outputs
To avoid this warning, we now just build the manual in its build location,
then move the generated files into $(O)/docs/manual.
Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: tested all but PDF]
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch reworks the manual source preparation by:
- moving the build directory under $(BUILD_DIR)/, this keeps consistency
with the other Buildroot infrastructures;
- adding a couple of targets: 'manual-rsync' and 'manual-prepare-sources',
to deal more efficiently with the manual sources and avoid rsync-ing
them on every single manual-* target.
The 'manual-rsync' target only copies the manual sources under git, while
the 'manual-prepare-sources' also takes care of the generated ones. These
targets are now run only once, and the manual build is no longer cleaned
after each manual format generation.
Now, the 'manual-clean' target only remove the manual build directory, but
keeps the output one $(O)/output/doc/manual unchanged.
Doing so (moving the manual build directory and keeping it between 2
manual format generation) ensures that all generated sources are taken
in account when generating the manual [1].
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-August/104421.html
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: moved into $(BUILD_DIR)/docs/manual as per
Thomas P. suggestion]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To be consistent with the recent change of FOO_MAKE_OPT into FOO_MAKE_OPTS,
make the same change for FOO_KCONFIG_OPT.
Sed command used:
find * -type f | xargs sed -i 's#_KCONFIG_OPT\>#&S#g'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To be consistent with the recent change of FOO_MAKE_OPT into FOO_MAKE_OPTS,
make the same change for FOO_GETTEXTIZE_OPT.
Sed command used:
find * -type f | xargs sed -i 's#_GETTEXTIZE_OPT\>#&S#g'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To be consistent with the recent change of FOO_MAKE_OPT into FOO_MAKE_OPTS,
make the same change for FOO_BUILD_OPT.
Sed command used:
find * -type f | xargs sed -i 's#_BUILD_OPT\>#&S#g'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To be consistent with the recent change of FOO_MAKE_OPT into FOO_MAKE_OPTS,
make the same change for FOO_CONF_OPT.
Sed command used:
find * -type f | xargs sed -i 's#_CONF_OPT\>#&S#g'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To be consistent with the recent change of FOO_MAKE_OPT into FOO_MAKE_OPTS,
make the same change for FOO_AUTORECONF_OPT.
Sed command used:
find * -type f | xargs sed -i 's#_AUTORECONF_OPT\>#&S#g'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To be consistent with the recent change of FOO_MAKE_OPT into FOO_MAKE_OPTS,
make the same change for FOO_INSTALL_STAGING_OPT.
Sed command used:
find * -type f | xargs sed -i 's#_INSTALL_STAGING_OPT\>#&S#g'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To be consistent with the recent change of FOO_MAKE_OPT into FOO_MAKE_OPTS,
make the same change for FOO_INSTALL_TARGET_OPT.
Sed command used:
find * -type f | xargs sed -i 's#_INSTALL_TARGET_OPT\>#&S#g'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To be consistent with the recent change of FOO_MAKE_OPT into FOO_MAKE_OPTS,
make the same change for FOO_INSTALL_OPT.
Sed command used:
find * -type f | xargs sed -i 's#_INSTALL_OPT\>#&S#g'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
While the autotools infrastructure was using FOO_MAKE_OPT, generic packages
were typically using FOO_MAKE_OPTS. This inconsistency becomes a problem
when a new infrastructure is introduced that wants to make use of
FOO_MAKE_OPT(S), and can live alongside either generic-package or
autotools-package. The new infrastructure will have to choose between either
OPT or OPTS, and thus rule out transparent usage by respectively generic
packages or generic packages. An example of such an infrastructure is
kconfig-package, which provides kconfig-related make targets.
The OPTS variant is more logical, as there are typically multiple options.
This patch renames all occurrences of FOO_MAKE_OPT in FOO_MAKE_OPTS.
Sed command used:
find * -type f | xargs sed -i 's#_MAKE_OPT\>#&S#g'
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, we only document (e)glibc and uClibc as C libraries on which
we can depend. However, we've supported musl for quite some time now.
So, also refference it in the manual, when dealing with toolchain
options a package may have to depend on.
[Peter: order musl before uClibc]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
- wrap lines to 80 characters
- fix space/tab mixup
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: tested all but PDF]
Tested-by: "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>
Inspired by some text in the 'project-specific patches' section, this patch
adds a separate section on layering customizations by providing multiple
post-build scripts, multiple rootfs overlays, etc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the section 'Step-by-step instructions for storing
configuration' as follows:
- rename into 'Quick guide to storing your project-specific customizations'
and hence make it serve as a summary to the chapter
- change the introduction to make this clear
- update paths to line-up with section 'recommended directory structure'
- recommend BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR, as is done in the section on adding
patches.
- mention how to add packages in a project-specific directory (to be
expanded in another patch)
- minor rewording
- rename file into customize-quick-guide.txt
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This small patch adds references to the section on 'recommended directory
structure' from sections explaining the post-build script and rootfs
overlay.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch adds a new section to chapter 'Project-specific customization' to
describe how to add project-specific packages from a project-specific
directory. The principle was already described in the presentation 'Using
Buildroot for real projects' but was never documented in official Buildroot
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The Buildroot manual was recommending following paths for project-specific
packages:
package/<company>/<boardname>/foo/
$BR2_EXTERNAL/package/<boardname>/foo/
However, if a company has several boards, it is often the case that some
packages are common for different boards. Therefore, introducing a
<boardname> path component is not ideal.
This patch changes the recommendation to:
package/<company>/foo/
$BR2_EXTERNAL/package/foo/
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This small patch renames the section 'Customizing packages' to 'Adding
project-specific patches'. Additionally, a minor change is done to the
introduction of this section.
To better reflect the contents, the source file is renamed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch adds basic documentation on users tables, a topic which was
currently not yet covered in the manual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch adds basic documentation on device and permission tables, a topic
which was currently not yet covered in the manual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch re-orders the enumeration of typical project customization
actions:
- move the 'patching packages' section downwards.
- group the entries on post-build scripts and rootfs-overlays to match the
actual section text.
Since indented enumerations use asterixes, update the top-level entries with
asterixes too for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch promotes the sections on Buildroot configuration and the
configuration of other components to top-level sections, to match the
overview in the introduction of the chapter. The introduction of the
original section is removed as it does not bring additional info anymore.
Some rewording is done as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch moves the section 'Basics for storing the configuration' to a
separate file and upwards in the manual section order, to line up with the
listing of customization actions in the introduction of the chapter. The
text itself is currently unchanged, this will be handled in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Minor rework of the section 'Creating your own board support', as follows:
- Rename section into 'Adding support for a particular board'
- Modify introduction
- Refer to Project-specific customizations chapter
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Section 'Creating your own board support' is seemingly written in the
mindset of adding support for public boards. Therefore, it is more suited in
the Developer guide, rather than in the User guide.
Adding support for custom non-public boards falls under the
'Project-specific customizations' category and will be described in that
section.
This patch moves the unchanged text into a separate file, included from the
Developer guide. The next patch will make some minor changes to the text
itself.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the section on root filesystem customization as follows:
- use labeled list instead of bulleted list to clarify the different methods
- move rootfs overlay and post-build scripts to the top and label them as
recommended.
- split post-image to a separate section, as it is not related to the target
filesystem customization
- line up post-build and post-image explanations, for example regarding
working directory of the script
- general expansion of some of the explanation
- general rewording
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch reworks the section on BR2_EXTERNAL as follows:
- move note about upstreaming to the chapter introduction
- streamline the section with the previously added section 'Recommended
directory structure', avoiding duplication.
- use $(BR2_EXTERNAL) rather than BR2_EXTERNAL when referring to file paths.
- some general rewording
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Although the user is free to choose where to put project-specific files, the
presentation 'Using Buildroot for real projects' [1] first described a
certain recommendation.
This patch briefly describes this recommendation in the form of a directory
structure overview, the details will be added in subsequent patches.
Since the section on BR2_EXTERNAL is logically connected to the directory
structure, this section is moved right after it.
[1] http://elinux.org/images/2/2a/Using-buildroot-real-project.pdf
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch expands the introduction text of chapter 'Project-specific
customization' by listing the type of customizations that can be performed
by a project.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
After the renaming of some sections, rename the corresponding files for
clarity.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Some source files of the manual merely contain inclusion of other files.
Especially at top-level this is unnecessary, and one could just as well add
these includes in manual.txt.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the chapter 'Configuration of other components' as
follows:
- remove separate customize-xxx-config.txt files in favor of one shared file
configure-other-componenents.txt
- use labeled list instead of separate sections, as the information in each
section is limited.
- simplify instructions for busybox/uclibc thanks to the kconfig-package
infrastructure
- rewrite instructions for Linux
- add instructions for Barebox
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch moves the tip on searching in the configuration editors into the
section 'Buildroot configuration', which is more logical.
The wording of that section is slightly adapted to fit this new part.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch performs some additional restructuring of the manual,
specifically in the User Guide. In detail:
- Rename 'Daily use' to 'General Buildroot usage'
- Move chapters 'make tips', 'Eclipse integration', and 'Advanced usage' as
sections under the 'General Buildroot usage' chapter.
- Rename 'Details on Buildroot configuration' into 'Buildroot configuration'
- Rework the 'Customization' section as follows:
- Move the short section on debugging the external toolchain wrapper into
the rest of the explanation on external toolchains.
- Remove the now redundant section on toolchains, as this is already
explained in much more detail in the 'Buildroot configuration' chapter.
- Move the sections on busybox/uclibc/kernel configuration from chapter
'Customization' into a separate chapter 'Configuration of other
components'.
- Rename the remaining part of the original 'Customization' chapter into
'Project-specific customization' and fold it together with the next
chapter 'Storing the configuration'
- Remove the chapter 'Going further in Buildroot innards' thanks to:
- Moving the chapter 'How Buildroot works' to the Developer guide.
- Moving the 'Advanced Buildroot usage' section to the 'General Buildroot
usage' chapter.
- Remove the chapter 'Hacking Buildroot' by:
- Adding a reference to adding packages to the 'Project-specific
customizations' chapter
- Leaving out the explicit reference to creating board support, as this is
part of the previous chapter already, so an extra reference is
redundant.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch renames the section 'Using Buildroot' into 'Buildroot quick
start' as real details about Buildroot usage will be in the User Guide
rather than in 'Getting Started'.
Additionally, add a cross-reference to the section about configuring
Buildroot.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Add atomic operations to the list of generic dependencies.
Since this is an architecture option, there is no comment string to be
added.
Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: use the new arch-option; remove comment string]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit updates the Buildroot manual regarding how gettext related
issues are handled, now that we have cases where the gettext package
should be selected even with glibc toolchains.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch does some general rewording of the 'Using buildroot' section
of the manual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the 'Getting Buildroot' section of the manual as follows:
- be more specific on the Buildroot release cycle
- refer to the download page of the website for details on snapshots and
git, instead of duplicating the information.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the requirements section of the manual as follows:
- some general rewording
- move configuration editor dependencies above the download tools, as this
is the first thing people come in contact with.
- move sentence regarding -dev packages to configuration editor dependencies
and restrict to 'libraries'.
- clarify the download tools part.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the section 'Community resources' as follows:
- use a labeled list instead of subsections, as the content of each section
is so small that it does not deserve a real section.
Related to this, the anchors for each of these subsections are removed, as
referencing such anchors that do not correspond to a section boundary are
not displayed nicely.
- move the part about applying patches from patchwork to the Contributing
section in the Developer Guide
- reword some parts of the text
- add link texts to some links, instead of showing the URL directly, to make
the HTML / PDF display nicer.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The Getting Involved section is actually an overview of the ways to interact
with the Buildroot community, which is useful for developers _and_ users.
Therefore, this patch moves the section from the Developer Guide to the
Getting Started section, and renames it to 'Community Resources'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The list of buildroot events is outdated, a sign that the manual is not the
best place to refer to timely things like events. The wiki page is better
suited for such information.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
Images specified in the asciidoc sources (currently only the logo) are
displayed as the file name in the text version of the manual. This causes an
odd line to appear:
logo.png
Avoid this by setting the image representation macros to {empty} in
manual-text.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When the asciidoc source contain URLs of the form:
http://example.com[An example website]
the text representation of the manual would only contain:
An example website
without displaying the actual URL.
This patch adds an asciidoc configuration file that sets the inline macros
for several URL types so that the display becomes:
An example website [http://example.com]
For URLs where no link text was provided, the display becomes:
http://example.com
which is the same as before.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch introduces support for asciidoc configuration files, specific for
each output format (html, text, pdf, ...). This is useful to make certain
tweaks in the document generation.
If a file docs/manual/asciidoc-<format>.conf is present, it is passed to
asciidoc as configuration file. If no file for the current format is
present, the options passed to asciidoc are empty.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
In the gendoc infrastructure, using an assignment of the form
FOO = docs/$(1)/bar
inside GENDOC_INNER does not work as expected: the $(1) value is empty here
and the value of FOO becomes 'docs//bar'.
Parameters $(2), $(3), etc. do not have this problem. The specific thing
about $(1) is that it is a parameter to GENDOC itself (indicating the
document to create) and passed transparently to GENDOC_INNER.
This is different from the package infrastructures, where $(1) is set from
$(pkgname). In fact, the same strategy could be used by the gendoc
infrastructure as well, as $(pkgname) resolves to 'manual' for file
docs/manual/manual.mk. This has the advantage that the described problem
does not occur.
Note that this means that if we want to use the same GENDOC infrastructure
for another document, it will have to reside in a separate directory than
the manual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The SOURCE references "LIBFOO_VERSION", should be "PYTHON_FOO_VERSION".
Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire < thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch adds documentation for the new kconfig-package infrastructure to
the manual.
Note that due to the simplicity of the infrastructure, the documentation
is not split in a 'tutorial' and a 'reference', like for the other
infrastructures. Instead, the usage is described in one section.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
[me: slight grammar fix 'copy -back- the configuration +back+ to...']
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
As reported in bug #7172 [0], setting BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS to a value
containing a $ sign can lead to unexpected results.
This is because it is very hard to know when the $ sign gets evaluated:
- in the Buildroot-level make
- in the shell called by the Buildroot-level make
- in the package's own build-system, either at configure time, in the
Makefile, in a shell in the Makefile...
So, it is very difficult to know how much escaping that would need.
A proposal is to use a shell variable to pass such values unmolested.
But it is not that simple either, since it still contains a $ sign, and
there is not much certainty as to when it would be evaluated.
Instead, just document this limitation, both in the help text for
BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS, and in the known-issues section in the manual.
Does not really fix#7172, but at least the limitation is documented.
[0] https://bugs.buildroot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7172
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Mike Zick <minimod@morethan.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Since the trailing slash is stripped from $($(PKG)_SITE) by pkg-generic.mk:
$(call DOWNLOAD,$($(PKG)_SITE:/=)/$($(PKG)_SOURCE))
so it is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The -s is missing in the documentation when teaching how to use 'git
format-patch' to automatically add the sob line.
Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_X_Y symbols can be used to denote the
lowest required kernel headers version, but also the highest supported
version. Document that.
Use the `...` construct instead of +...+ used eveywhere else, otherwise
asciidoc would render +<=+ to the ⇐ arrow, while `...` does no rendering
at all.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit improves the autotools-package infrastructure to support a
<pkg>_AUTORECONF_ENV variable, which allows a package maintainer to
pass additional variables in the environment of the autoreconf
execution. This is useful in the situation where configure.ac contains
shell commands using environment variables that are only executed when
autoreconf is run.
Signed-off-by: Rick Taylor <rick.taylor@cassidian.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit improves the scancpan script to automatically populate the
LICENSE_FILES variable using informations available in the Perl
package MANIFEST file.
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
python-numpy needs to be installed to the staging directory, since it
also installs some header files. Therefore, this commit extends the
Python package infrastructure to support staging installation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
It seems common knowledge to use git rebase in interactive mode
to fixup issues while respinning patch series, but I found it hard
to find any hint about it. Add a note for git beginners like me.
[Thomas: take into account Arnout's comment.]
Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Some perl packages may use environment variables as a hint to know how
to be configured.
That's for example the case for perl-net-ssleay that uses
OPENSSL_PREFIX, if it is set in the environment, as the prefix to
openssl.
Add a new variable that packages can set if they need extra environment
variables. Update the manual accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: enhance the commit log]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Although md5 is, for legacy reasons, a supported hash type,
it is not documented on purpose, since it is now known to
be weak.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add "graphviz" and "python-matplotlib" as requirements for graph
generation.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Dallas Clement <dallas.a.clement@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
The inner-xxx-targets in the buildroot package infrastructures are
evaluated using $(eval) which causes variable references to be a bit
different than in regular make code. As we want most references to be
expanded only at the time of the $(eval) we should not use standard
references $(VAR) but rather use double dollar signs $$(VAR). This includes
function references like $(call), $(subst), etc. The only exception is the
reference to pkgdir/pkgname and numbered variables, which are parameters to
the inner block: $(1), $(2), etc.
This patch introduces consistent usage of double-dollar signs throughout the
different inner-xxx-targets blocks.
In some cases, this would potentially cause circular references, in
particular when the value of HOST_FOO_VAR would be obtained from the
corresponding FOO_VAR if HOST_FOO_VAR is not defined. In these cases, a test
is added to check for a host package (the only case where such constructions
are relevant; these are not circular).
Benefits of these changes are:
- behavior of variables is now again as expected. For example, setting
$(2)_VERSION = virtual in pkg-virtual.mk will effectively work, while
originally it would cause very odd results.
- The output of 'make printvars' is now much more useful. This target shows
the value of all variables, and the expression that led to that value.
However, if the expression was coming from an inner-xxx-targets block, and
was using single dollar signs, it would show in printvars as
VAR = value (value)
while if double dollar signs are used, it would effectively look like
VAR = value (actual expression)
as is intended.
This improvement is for example effective for FOO_DL_VERSION, FOO_RAWNAME,
FOO_SITE_METHOD and FOO_MAKE.
The correctness of this patch has been verified using 'make printvars',
'make manual' and 'make legal-info' before and after applying this patch,
and comparing the output.
Insight-provided-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The transitive dependencies make the graphs barely readable for large
configs, with a large number of packages.
So, just switch to not drawing the transitive dependencies by default.
By popular demand... ;-)
[Peter: reword]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc; Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add the list of virtual packages as an appendix to the manual.
Also reference this list from appropriate locations elsewhere in
the manual:
- in section 7.2.2. "Config.in file", after the existing explanations
on dependencies on target and toolchain options, on a linux kernel,
and on udev /dev management,
- in section 7.2.10. "Infrastructure for virtual packages", in the
provider Config.in and .mk explanations, to have the list of existing
symbols to select (in Config.in) and packages to provide (in .mk).
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@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 Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The de facto standard terminology in the manual appears to be "package
metadata information"; fix a couple of inconsistent references to package
"meta-information" and "meta information".
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The correct capitalisation pattern is "GitHub"; fix manual and makefile
commentary.
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The correct capitalised form appears to be "BusyBox" rather than "Busybox";
fix all references to the latter form. (Most such references occur in the
manual and in commentary in package makefiles.)
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
As discussed on irc, there is a missing part in the BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR
example compared to the ASCII figure under customize-packages section.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Roy <sebastien.roy@savoirfairelinux.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
As discussed on the mailing list [1], remove the limited explicit list of
contributors in favor of the general mention of 'The Buildroot developers'.
Add a copyright statement.
Move the generation info to the front.
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-May/097589.html
[Peter: remove trailing +, minor rewording]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
People reading the Buildroot manual online cannot immediately know what its
license is (unlike reading it from within the source tree). To avoid any
discussion, explicitize this in the manual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
There will soon be new options to the graph-depends script, which we
can only sanely pass via environment variables.
Currently, we use such an environment variable to pass the maximum depth
of the dependency graph; the name of that variable is explicit that it
contains just the depth.
However, there has been so far no release of Buildroot which would make
use of that variable, so no user should have come to rely on it.
Rename that variable so it is less specific, and more generic, so it can
be used to pass more options to graph-depends.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The Buildroot manual currently does not contain any mention of the
<pkg>_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS which could potentially be of interest when
developing a new 'generic-package'.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com>
CC: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add PRE_*_HOOKS to all the different steps through which a package may go.
This will help avoid using POST_*_HOOKS to do tasks that should be done
in the PRE_*_HOOKS of the next step.
Otherwise, when the user would do a make foo-re<step>, this would not do
what was really intented, the POST_*_HOOK of the preceding step not
being executed.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
[ThomasDS: rebase, add images hooks to manual]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[ThomasDS: some rewording, add <buildroot> path prefix in example]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The manual has this sentence for the dependency on a C library *and* a
toolchain feature:
foo needs an (e)glibc toolchain, or foo needs an (e)glibc toolchain
w/ C++ support
And then, just below, the comment text for C++ is just 'C++', not
'C++ support'.
Fix that, and add a bit of indentation too.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-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>
For asciidoc, a string like '+these are some words+' will be displayed in
monospace font. Such sequences are identified by searching for a matching
pair of + signs in the same block.
The string 'C++' also contains such + signs. In most cases, this does not
pose a problem and no escaping is necessary. However, if 'C++' occurs twice
in the same block, the + signs will be matched to each other, and asciidoc
formats all text between them as monospaced text. In this case, escaping of
one of these 'C++' occurances is necessary to get the right formatting.
In one place of the manual, there is a sentence that causes such a problem:
"you only have to tell whether your toolchain supports C++ or not and
whether it has built-in RPC support. If your external toolchain uses
the 'uClibc' library, then you have to tell Buildroot if it supports
largefile, IPv6, RPC, wide-char, locale, program invocation, threads
and C++."
Commit 082dec8ce4 was based on a patch fixing
this problem in one place of the manual, but was incorrectly changed while
committing.
This patch reverts the incorrect changes in that commit, and solves the
problem correctly.
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The manual now features a new section with instructions about how to add a
virtual package.
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: move down statement about provider's .mk]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Some packages need a host-python interpreter with a version different
from the one installed in the target to run some build scripts (eg.
scons requires python2 to run, to build any kind of packages even if
the python interpreter selected for the target is python3).
In such cases, we need to add the right host-python dependency to the
package using the host-python-package infrastructure, and we also want
to invoke the right host python interpreter during the build steps.
This patch adds a *_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON variable that can be set either
to 'python2' or 'python3'. This variable can be set by any package
using the host-python-package infrastructure to force the python
interpreter for the build. This variable also takes care of setting
the right host-python dependency.
This *_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON variable only affects packages using the
host-python-package infrastructure.
If some configure/build/install commands are overloaded in the *.mk
file, the right python interpreter should be explicitly called.
If the package defines some tool variable (eg.: SCONS), the variable
should explicitly call the right python interpreter.
[Thomas:
- fixes to the commit log and documentation suggested by Yann
- rename the variable from <pkg>_FORCE_HOST_PYTHON to
<pkg>_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON, as suggested by Yann
- do not allow any other value than python2 and python3 in
<pkg>_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON, as suggested by Yann.]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: fix to actually use the correct syntax.]
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The manual always uses the format with multiple dependencies. This only
add an example where is a single dependency to show that this format is
applicable regardless of the number of dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
Since the migration of the toolchains to the generic package
infrastructure, it is no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Because now the toolchain dependency is automatically added by the
package infrastructure the BASE_TARGETS variable is useless so just
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch updates the commit message template provided in the manual.
The new template emphasizes the importance of providing a description of the
problem, the root cause, and the solution, and the fact that all this should
be wrapped at 72 characters.
Suggested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch makes some minor fixes in the section about reporting bugs.
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>
Currently, the manual states that if you send a series and include a
changelog in the introduction mail (0 of x), it is not necessary to include
a changelog on the individual patches.
This is not always convenient: for large patch series it requires going back
to the introduction mail when opening each patch, to understand what
changed.
This patch rewords the paragraph accordingly.
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>
This patch makes some minor changes to the section about submitting patches.
Content-wise there are little changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch adds a small section about working on items from the TODO list.
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>
This patch moves the section about patch reviews and the
Tested-by/Reviewed-by/Acked-by tags upwards. Additionally, the first
paragraph is removed and replaced by another one. There are no other changes
in the text.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch moves the section about autobuild fixing up, and expands it with
more details about what autobuilds are, and how you can help with it.
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>
The user-facing variables should be prefixed with BR2_, not BR_.
Also quote the variable in the manual.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch adds a small section to the manual promoting the reproduction,
analysis and fixing of bug reports.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch expands the introduction of the "Contributing to buildroot"
section. In general, the intention of this and subsequent patches is to
promote non-feature contributions, like autobuild fixes, bug report
analysis, TODO list work, etc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch updates the manual with more clarified descriptions of tags
Tested-by, Reviewed-by, and Acked-by, as discussed on the Buildroot
developer days in February 2014.
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>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
There was one instance of DL_DIR that was left out. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit fixes a few minor spelling or grammar mistakes since the recent
additions to the manual (commits 0b100de2cf to
7cbb476661).
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
[Peter: adjust wording as suggested by Yann]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
The ELDK now relies on Yocto, so it no longer has the funky
non-standard way of doing multilib. Also, we didn't mention that Yocto
toolchains/SDK are not suitable for usage with Buildroot. Therefore,
this commit rewords this part of the documentation to explain that
Yocto/OpenEmbedded SDKs cannot be used as external toolchains in
Buildroot, and why.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
Replace ADI by Analog Devices, which is clearer for most people, and
remove the Xilinx external toolchains since we have deprecated them.
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>
Now that we have eglibc and glibc support in the internal backend, and
no longer marked as experimental, a little bit of rewording is
needed. It is no longer necessary to indicate that uClibc was
historically supported as the only C library, and that the glibc
support is experimental. We also update the rest of the description to
be less uClibc specific.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
[Peter: adjust wording as suggested by Yann]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
There is no need to tell people that they should remove stamp files: they
should use the make <pkg>-reconfigure and make <pkg>-rebuild make targets
instead. We still keep an explanation about stamp files, just to give the
user an insight on how Buildroot works internally.
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>
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>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Using a relative path for O=... has limitations, since it is interpreted
relative to the Buildroot tree, and thus may lead to unexpected results.
For example, running this:
make -C buildroot O=my-O
will not create my-O in the current working directory, but as a
sub-directory of the Buildroot tree, here in buildroot/my-O
Explain this in the manual (as is similarly done for BR2_EXTERNAL).
Also add a note that $(O) will be created if missing.
Also change O=.. and -C .. to O=<...> and -C <...> to make it explicit
this is an ellipse, not a relative path.
Reported-by: Jérémy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-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>
Although it is possible to use relative paths, there are a few pitfalls
when doing so.
To avoid confusion for a (newcoming) user, use absolute paths in the
manual (as is done in examples for $(O)), since it is guaranteed to be
working without corner cases.
[Peter: s/relatively/relative/ as suggested by Thomas]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
This patch updates the /dev management section in the manual with information
about eudev, which replaces udev.
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Acked-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>
This patch converts udev to a virtual package. For the moment, there is only
one provider for the udev features: eudev.
Packages meant to provide udev-like features must select the symbol
BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV.
Packages depending on BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_UDEV or
BR2_PACKAGE_UDEV have been converted to use the new symbol.
[Peter: move legacy symbols under 2014.05]
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
As the e-mail address buildroot@buildroot.org is now enabled, update the
e-mail addresses in the source tree from @uclibc.org and @busybox.net to our
own proper domain.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To make the naming consistent (all user-visible options should be
prefixed with BR2_).
An entry is added to Makefile.legacy to warn users who have set
BUILDROOT_CONFIG but not BR2_CONFIG.
Still export BUILDROOT_CONFIG but pointing to some phony value, to
make sure that scripts that still use it fail in a predictable way.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Jérémy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To make the naming consistent (all user-visible options should be
prefixed BR2_).
An entry is added to Makefile.legacy to warn users who have set
BUILDROOT_DL_DIR but not BR2_DL_DIR.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The manual is a bit vague about whether Config.in and external.mk
are mandatory or optional.
Make it explicit in the manual that they are mandatory.
Reported-by: Jérémy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Try to clarify how the wrapper passes arguments and why.
This is mainly because the output you can see when you build, does not
reflect what is invoked by the wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
It is not buildroot convention to align the = signs in .mk files, so this
shouldn't be suggested in the manual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
