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Thomas De Schampheleire
32ef7396f7 manual/user guide/customization: re-order introduction
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>
2014-09-21 19:41:12 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
75de9ac6f2 manual/user guide/customization: rework section on storing configuration
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>
2014-09-21 19:41:12 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
e140eb70d4 manual/user guide/customization: move section on storing configuration
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>
2014-09-21 19:41:12 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
1ee5dccdc2 manual/developer guide: minor rework of 'adding board support' section
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>
2014-09-21 19:41:12 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
eae2347831 manual: move 'Creating your own board support' from User to Developer guide
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>
2014-09-21 19:41:12 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
94d514019c docs/news.html: add 2014.08 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-09-01 15:04:48 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
fcd720dfcf Update for 2014.08
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-09-01 13:20:56 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
44a5c46213 manual/user guide/customization: rework section on rootfs customization
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>
2014-08-31 22:22:43 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
4d36f10426 manual/user guide/customization: rework section on BR2_EXTERNAL
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>
2014-08-30 09:18:56 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
9c09fc6017 manual/user guide/customization: add section with recommended dir structure
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>
2014-08-30 09:18:45 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
a194faa44d manual/user guide/customization: expand introduction text
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>
2014-08-30 09:18:27 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
fdff715089 Update for 2014.08-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-08-26 10:26:38 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
f21256b86a manual: file organization: rename files to match new section title
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>
2014-08-21 15:39:33 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
a14ce4d57c manual: file organization: avoid unnecessary indirection
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>
2014-08-21 15:39:33 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
5a980678f6 manual/user guide: rework 'Configuration of other components' chapter
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>
2014-08-21 15:39:33 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
47c1c50134 manual/user guide: move tip on configuration searches
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>
2014-08-21 15:39:32 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
77007ad950 manual/user guide: high-level restructuring
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>
2014-08-21 15:39:32 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
3afdf89f69 manual/getting started: minor improvements to 'Using Buildroot' section
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>
2014-08-21 15:39:32 +02:00
Anton Kolesov
a30b868de6 manual: document dependencies on atomic operations
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>
2014-08-18 10:58:15 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
2289c34a19 docs/manual: update documentation about gettext handling
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>
2014-08-18 10:36:31 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
7dc7c7904b Update for 2014.08-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-08-18 01:04:16 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
ad4823f853 docs/news.html: add 2014.08-rc1 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-08-18 00:53:30 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
607bd1a1bd manual/getting started: rework 'Using Buildroot' section
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>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
afdd5cebe2 manual/getting started: rework 'Getting Buildroot' section
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>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
3dde85015d website/download: update daily snapshot section
This patch makes some minor changes to the download page of the website:
- don't capitalize Daily Snapshots as there is no reason to.
- remove extra link to daily snapshots, as this link is already available on
  the line below.
- add a link to the latest snapshot
- avoid 'Click here', especially if 'here' is not clickable

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
9c353541ff manual/getting started: rework 'System requirements' section
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>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
713134fc92 manual/getting started: rework 'Community resources' section
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>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
5712140af4 manual/getting started: rename and move 'Getting involved' section
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>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
429489c632 manual: remove 'Events' section
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>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
569db40574 manual: high-level restructuring
The structure of the buildroot manual is not always clear. There is a large
number of chapters, and some chapters seem to overlap. The distinction
between general usage and developer information is not always clear.

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-08-17 21:09:52 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
bb00e14149 manual-text: hide image representations
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>
2014-08-16 09:29:59 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
67274a9b6f manual-text: make sure URLs are displayed if a link text was provided
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>
2014-08-16 09:29:59 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
05fa99d03c gendoc infra: add support for asciidoc configuration files
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>
2014-08-16 09:29:59 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
dd935d6771 gendoc infra: use $(pkgname) instead of explicitly passing 'manual'
In the gendoc infrastructure, using an assignment of the form
    FOO = docs/$(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>
2014-08-16 09:29:59 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
7e725e1333 Update for 2014.08-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-08-08 23:34:24 +02:00
Danomi Manchego
dffb833cbc manual: fix copy/paste error in python package example
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>
2014-08-06 19:51:27 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
e91cd2902d manual: add documentation for kconfig-package
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>
2014-08-04 09:54:04 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
a930d9cef6 toolchain: linker options with a $ sign are not supported
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>
2014-07-31 23:51:39 +02:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
17902f5b16 manual/adding-packages-perl.txt: remove the trailing slash sign from description of PERL_SITE variable
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>
2014-07-31 23:17:07 +02:00
Waldemar Brodkorb
ffc9e4680c docs/manual: add sob line for patch series
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>
2014-07-29 20:23:58 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
aa0c8be4e2 docs/manual: enhance doc for BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_X_Y
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>
2014-07-27 15:06:44 +02:00
Rick Taylor
5af28fe6a1 pkg-autotools: add support for <pkg>_AUTORECONF_ENV
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>
2014-07-23 23:49:10 +02:00
Francois Perrad
6d3962f0bd support/scripts/scancpan: automatically populate LICENSE_FILES
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>
2014-07-18 19:45:20 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
1bdd6ca020 manual: add gettextize explanations in the manual
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-07-17 09:49:37 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
643627fc43 pkg-python: add staging installation support
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>
2014-07-16 22:27:34 +02:00
Waldemar Brodkorb
b41ec531c2 give a hint about git rebase
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>
2014-07-15 23:40:07 +02:00
Francois Perrad
734b34f520 infra/pkg-perl: add possibility to pass extra env at configure time
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>
2014-07-14 13:06:59 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
051876936f manual: add documentation about packages' hashes
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>
2014-07-04 23:39:26 +02:00
Vivien Didelot
9ab109869f manual: (faq-boot-hang-after-starting) fix config entries
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-06-22 19:21:31 +02:00
Fabio Porcedda
87a58345ad manual: add requirements for graph generation
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>
2014-06-22 19:14:52 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
54456cc698 infra: consistently use double dollar signs inside inner-xxx-targets
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>
2014-06-14 19:09:54 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
4cce4ac990 graphs/depends: do not draw transitive dependencies by default
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>
2014-06-13 14:39:48 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
07c642b735 docs/manual: add the virtual packages list
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>
2014-06-08 17:11:47 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
c67423c331 manual: document the new graph-depends options
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>
2014-06-08 16:43:36 +02:00
Simon Dawson
0fed833cb0 manual: make consistent references to package metadata information
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>
2014-06-04 23:15:06 +02:00
Simon Dawson
3b8e4fb4aa replace github with GitHub
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>
2014-06-04 23:14:08 +02:00
Simon Dawson
0be303cacc replace references to Busybox with BusyBox
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>
2014-06-01 23:58:43 +02:00
Simon Dawson
b3b4369848 manual: fix spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-06-01 17:28:05 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
d27170a6f7 docs/news.html: add 2014.05 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-06-01 09:49:24 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
f287d625b2 Update for 2014.05
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-31 09:52:49 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
5a3899065e manual/make-tips.txt: busybox doesn't have a savedefconfig target
So don't mention it here.

Reported-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-31 09:33:10 +02:00
Sebastien Roy
70c7fbf0ae manual: Fix BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR example
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>
2014-05-29 23:21:15 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
baa41098aa manual: remove contributor list and add copyright
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>
2014-05-29 00:03:49 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
d830cceba5 Update for 2014.05-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-28 17:07:11 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
2df721b2be manual: explicitize manual license
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>
2014-05-27 22:07:50 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
b8557dc823 website: add alt-tags to images
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-25 21:51:57 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
97a632a0b2 website: fix typos and HTML on support page
Fix a few typos on the support page, and add correct HTML <p> </p> tag
pairs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-25 21:48:01 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
03aea68f17 website: remove remaining references to uclibc.org
The website still used some uclibc.org URLs which can now use buildroot.org.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-25 21:46:51 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
397e022ca4 website: rework Contribute page to avoid duplication with manual
The manual contains details about how users can contribute to
buildroot. The website also had such a list, but with much less detail and
not containing all topics.
In order to avoid duplicating this information, simply list the different
topics without detail on the website, and add a link to the relevent
chapter of the manual.

[Peter: slightly reword]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-25 21:45:02 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
63fbdd5c89 Update for 2014.05-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-21 17:17:03 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
f53571e57f docs/manual: document the new FOO_PROVIDES variable
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>
2014-05-21 00:19:55 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
1a2f21b127 news.html: add 2014.05-rc1 announcement mail link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-19 00:24:08 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
287a88286b graph-depends: rename the variable to pass the max depth
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>
2014-05-17 23:36:06 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
921a9efa40 Update for 2014.05-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-13 10:49:03 +02:00
Ryan Barnett
7649b2820e manual: add information about INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS
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>
2014-05-12 22:58:51 +02:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
ac93fabb66 infra: Add PRE_*_HOOKS for every step
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>
2014-05-08 22:00:47 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
1614bf6be7 docs/manual: document how to use the cross debugger
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>
2014-05-05 13:44:28 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
5e3cb35737 manual: fix C++ support in libc case, fix indentation
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>
2014-05-02 14:58:15 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
4109a20bea manual/configure.txt: fix C++ escaping
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>
2014-05-02 10:48:45 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
86a415df8a manual: use one-line titles instead of two-line titles (trivial)
Asciidoc supports two syntaxes for section titles: two-line titles (title
plus underline consisting of a particular symbol), and one-line titles
(title prefixed with a specific number of = signs).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

import sys
import mmap
import re

for input in sys.argv[1:]:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-02 10:27:59 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
bb068823ab manual: document BR2_GRAPH_DEPTH
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>
2014-04-14 20:56:21 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
b245d469c6 manual: add notes about depending on a virtual package
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-04-05 19:21:02 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
e92e0fd347 manual: update the virtual package section with the new infrastructure
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>
2014-04-05 19:21:00 +02:00
eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr
7862abad78 manual: add virtual package tutorial
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>
2014-04-05 19:20:58 +02:00
Samuel Martin
05754fa01d pkg-python: support host-python dependency different from the python in the target
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>
2014-04-05 16:38:25 +02:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
c09dda8e56 manual: fix typo in abbreviation 'i.e.'
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-29 09:30:50 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
6167a2cac6 manual: fix typo in abbreviation 'e.g.'
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-29 09:30:35 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
200058c153 manual/legal-notice.txt: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-29 09:30:02 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
eddeec8cf1 manual/contribute.txt: reword part about reporting issues
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-29 09:29:52 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
f9ce8d171e manual/contribute.txt: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-29 09:29:15 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
0a855f6391 manual/make-tips.txt: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-29 09:29:03 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
082dec8ce4 manual/configure.txt: fix typo
[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>
2014-03-29 09:28:21 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
541d070c01 manual/configure.txt: reword part about internal toolchain backend
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-29 09:09:10 +01:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
281635630a manual: Add singular example for dependency comment
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>
2014-03-29 09:08:04 +01:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
ac59563764 website: Add a Google+ presence
Since we use Google+ to share our news, this add a logo on the menu bar,
which links to the Buildroot profile.

[Peter: change link to Buildroot account]
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-28 22:48:01 +01:00
Francois Perrad
b7090a24d1 manual/using: output/toolchain is gone
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-26 22:32:54 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
74af345cff manual/adding-packages-tips.txt: reword part about package name
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-23 20:54:34 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
99171b9fa5 manual/adding-packages-generic.txt: change the default value of <PKG>_SOURCE variable
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-23 20:54:15 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
66ffcfb175 manual/adding-packages-generic.txt: fix capitalization in titles of chapters
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-23 20:53:38 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
2ab2463c64 manual/faq-troubleshooting.txt: remove the extra 'the'
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-23 20:52:59 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
5f1335f0c8 manual/customize-packages.txt: reword part about applying patches
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>
2014-03-23 20:52:20 +01:00
Jerzy Grzegorek
1585b4738d manual/common-usage.txt: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-23 20:52:12 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
ba25b12ce4 docs/docs.html: use @buildroot.org for the mailing list
Now that @buildroot.org is working, we should use it everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-18 09:12:16 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
e0c6067772 Remove STAMP_DIR
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>
2014-03-17 22:10:45 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
ca82317593 docs/index.html: make recent git/email headers links to cgit/gmane
So it is easy to start browsing directly from the homepage.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-03-16 22:02:45 +01:00
Fabio Porcedda
cf53e15d09 Makefile: remove BASE_TARGETS variable
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>
2014-03-06 22:50:48 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
4319fbeff2 manual: contributing: modify commit message template
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>
2014-03-06 18:27:47 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
1c97e35f9b manual: contributing: minor rewording of 'reporting bugs' section
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>
2014-03-06 18:27:35 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
9b556772b6 manual: contributing: don't recommend leaving out changelog from patches
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>
2014-03-06 18:27:24 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
1133097cb2 manual: contributing: minor rewording of 'submitting patches' section
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>
2014-03-06 18:27:14 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
b77143a755 manual: contributing: add section on TODO list
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>
2014-03-06 18:27:04 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
aeae2356b1 manual: contributing: move section on patch reviews up and change intro
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>
2014-03-06 18:26:31 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
f7d5d97173 manual: contributing: move and expand autobuild section
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>
2014-03-06 18:26:12 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
35c666e29b toolchain/wrapper: rename BR_DEBUG_WRAPPER
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>
2014-03-05 19:46:31 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
e640872eb0 manual: contributing: add section on analyzing bug reports
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>
2014-03-05 19:43:21 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
37b22be91d manual: contributing: expand introduction
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>
2014-03-05 19:43:12 +01:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
cec43a8f25 website: new website !
A new menu and logo for the website, also some of the contents has been
reworked.

This patch also removes files that are no longer used, like the old
stylesheet and a few pages. The content of theses pages has mostly been
merged in other pages or was redudant with the manual.

[Thomas: integrate a few typo fixes noticed by Thomas De
Schampheleire]

Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-03 21:40:50 +01:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
39b26d7171 website: add Buildroot javascript
Add some specific Javascript to display commit and mailing recent
entries. Note that the git commit mail are ignored. Also load Google
Analytics.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-03 21:40:50 +01:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
84dadd7073 website: add Bootstrap and JQuery frameworks
Add Bootstrap framework, along with JQuery.

Theses files were downloaded from:
  - http://getbootstrap.com
  - http://jquery.com/

Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-03 21:40:47 +01:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
f0d1fbe6f3 docs: Move README file to root
Move the README file from the subdirectory doc to the root.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-03-03 21:28:39 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
3ebeecbd1c manual: clarify Tested-by/Reviewed-by/Acked-by tags
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>
2014-03-02 16:24:30 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
6395bf0927 manual: document minimal kernel headers dependency
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>
2014-03-01 19:47:49 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
b108fdcb83 Merge branch 'next'
Conflicts:
	Makefile
	package/dmraid/Config.in
	package/gdb/Config.in.host
	package/linux-headers/linux-headers.mk
	package/python/python.mk
	package/python3/python3.mk
	package/rt-tests/Config.in
	package/sdl/sdl.mk
	package/systemd/systemd-01-fix-getty-unit.patch
	package/systemd/systemd-02-fix-page-size.patch
	package/systemd/systemd-03-uclibc-fix.patch
	package/udev/Config.in
	package/udisks/Config.in
	package/vlc/vlc.mk
	system/Config.in

Quite some merge conflicts, hopefully I didn't screw up anything.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-28 14:30:23 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
a6cfaea44e Update for 2014.02
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-27 21:51:23 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
98f7e12c50 Update for 2014.02-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-25 08:49:04 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
70d534262c common-usage.txt: adjust documentation for renamed BR2_GRAPH_ variables
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-24 22:40:48 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
4d1216901f manual: fix missing DL_DIR rename to BR2_DL_DIR
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>
2014-02-24 22:15:36 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
63d8bb3994 docs/manual: fix minor spelling/grammar mistakes
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>
2014-02-24 11:10:59 +01:00
Francois Perrad
d8fab8c5ee manual: adding packages perl
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-23 22:38:02 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
7cbb476661 docs/manual: mention the per-package graph-depends target
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-23 22:30:14 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
02b14d55ab docs/manual: document the usage of <pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR
[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>
2014-02-23 22:29:54 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
6d2071a2b7 docs/manual: refresh informations about *-menuconfig targets
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-23 22:22:47 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
5e26da4673 docs/manual: rephrase paragraph about unsupported external toolchains
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>
2014-02-23 22:19:12 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
3883823614 docs/manual: mention that custom toolchains is also useful for BR toolchains
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-23 22:17:57 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
08ad8a7c04 docs/manual: update external toolchain examples
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>
2014-02-23 22:17:18 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
ba4146c37c docs/manual: update informations about C library in internal backend
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>
2014-02-23 22:07:54 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
43f25ee055 docs/manual: add section about build time graphing
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-23 22:01:45 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
e78cc3af51 docs/manual: add section about dependency graphs
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-23 21:54:33 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
2f886ee34a docs/manual: reference Python and Lua infras from the list of package infrastructures
[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>
2014-02-23 21:54:09 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
9ea28e8a43 docs/manual: rephrase and expand part on when a full rebuild is necessary
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-23 21:29:58 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
9cab58b69e docs/manual: rephrase part about rebuilding packages
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>
2014-02-23 21:28:00 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
0b100de2cf docs/manual: toolchain packages no longer use custom makefiles
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-23 21:27:07 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
7586be4aae docs/manual: indicate how to handle BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
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>
2014-02-22 23:40:08 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
a524731012 manual: add explanations on limitations about using O=...
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>
2014-02-22 21:56:57 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
1de64ec8c0 manual: switch BR2_EXTERNAL examples to use absolute paths
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>
2014-02-22 21:56:57 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
ffeda5e429 manual/faq: add section about why no binary packages
It comes up every now and then on the list, so better be prepared to
point at the manual, rather than rehash the same every time.

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

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

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-20 20:56:01 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
085d4f0270 Update for 2014.02-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-20 09:24:32 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4ea812ea48 docs/web: give a little bit more exposure to our Google+ page
Add a small icon that links the Buildroot home page to our Google+
page.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-02-14 13:40:50 +01:00
eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr
46dde29fbb manual: update /dev management section.
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>
2014-02-12 22:14:45 +01:00
eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr
fabcb119b9 udev: convert to virtual package
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>
2014-02-12 22:14:19 +01:00