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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2013

for details. In summary:

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:37:44 +01:00
Samuel Martin
7a26f2f663 manual: minor fix in patch-policy.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:37:12 +01:00
Samuel Martin
5b02e6cad8 manual: fix cross-refs
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:02:53 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
d65bb7e315 Update for 2013.02-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-26 23:19:03 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
8290a6261a Update for 2013.02-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-19 22:05:42 +01:00
Samuel Martin
58e2e9d804 manual: minor fix in patch-policy.txt
[Peter: Drop *.patch.<arch> description as noted by Thomas]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-17 22:53:49 +01:00
Samuel Martin
4b95b369b1 manual: sprinkle with some calls to MESSAGE
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-17 22:51:03 +01:00
Samuel Martin
3edb0271db manual: cleanup and update editor tags
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-17 22:50:04 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
0ec1cf5a51 news.html: add 2013.02-rc1 annoucement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-10 13:54:11 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
e68acefb3b Update for 2013.02-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-10 11:07:12 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
fced72cc72 docs/news.html: announce dev meeting report
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-10 10:58:14 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
580225af20 package: remove scripts listed in <pkg>_CONFIG_SCRIPTS from target
The <foo>-config scripts are useless on the target, since they are
only needed for development, so we remove them automatically.

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

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

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

This commit also updates the documentation accordingly.

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

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-08 22:11:24 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
bd86e4ff73 docs/manual: slightly reword the solutions to customize rootfs
The order of the solutions to customize the root filesystem is
changed: we now mention the post-build script mechanism *before* the
custom root filesystem skeleton mechanism, because the former is
preferred over the latter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For example:

DIVINE_CONFIG_FIXUP = divine-config

or for multiple files:

IMAGEMAGICK_CONFIG_FIXUP = Magick-config Wand-config

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

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

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

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

Update doc accordingly.

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

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

Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-30 22:39:13 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
8850c52217 docs/manual: do not suggest to create a symlink for shared download directory
Creating a symbolic link for the download directory is really not a
useful suggestion, since we have the much better solution of the
BUILDROOT_DL_DIR environment variable. So emphasize this solution
instead, and remove the suggestion of the symbolic link.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-29 22:42:41 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
961cc7a497 docs/manual: mention Java-related optional dependencies
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-29 22:42:38 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
479262599a docs/manual: remove incorrect prerequites
The development files for zlib or netpbm are not needed, and neither
is python-xcbgen. None of these are present in the chroot used in the
autobuilders, and anyway if those would be needed, it would be a
Buildroot bug and not something to be mentionned in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-29 22:42:36 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
163ec17904 docs/manual: remove FAQ entry about 'depends on' vs. 'select'
The FAQ is before the section on package development, and only covers
user issues, not developer issues, so the FAQ entry about 'depends on'
vs. 'select' really doesn't have its place here.

And the 'depends on' vs. 'select' issue is already covered in a later
section, see
http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#depends-on-vs-select.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-29 22:42:34 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
401d323698 docs/manual: add details on toolchain configuration
This commit adds a new section

 Working with Buildroot
  -> Details in configuration
    -> Cross-compilation toolchain

that gives a lot of details about our three toolchain backends. It
takes some elements that were previously later in the manual in
"Embedded basics" and in "External toolchain" and combines them with
more details about internal backend and Crosstool-NG backend.

The "Embedded basics" section becomes empty and is therefore
removed. A few elements have been lost in the process, but they were
considered to not be really useful, especially located so far in the
manual.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-29 22:42:31 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
26bc50075d docs/manual: Slightly improve the introduction
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-29 22:42:26 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d21a858792 docs/manual: add a new 'Details on Buildroot configuration' section
As discussed with Samuel Martin, there are a few questions about some
Buildroot configuration aspects that come very often on the IRC
channel and on the mailing-list. Topics such as the /dev management
and init systems are often raised.

Therefore, this patch adds a new section that provides details about
the Buildroot configuration possibilities. It does not aim at
replacing the help text of each configuration option, but rather to
complement them by providing more background. Having those
informations in the manual will also make it easier for us to point
newcomers to the right place in the documentation when they have
questions.

Note that this section will replace the "Embedded basics" section that
comes way too late in the manual. This is done in a followup commit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-29 22:42:23 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
d201b95d8c Update for 2012.11
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-12-02 16:33:09 -08:00
Peter Korsgaard
1a59dfae0c Update for 2012.11-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-30 22:59:02 -08:00
Davide Viti
0435a0913c List the useful hook points available in buildroot
The complete list can be obtained with the following command:
  grep "_HOOKS[ ]\+?=" package/pkg-generic.mk

Signed-off-by: Davide Viti <zinosat@tiscali.it>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-30 12:21:09 -08:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
722b82f05b manual: restructure 'Adding packages' chapter
The depends-on-vs-select part of the manual really deserves its own
section title (especially because it is referred to and the xref gets
a 'sinpara' in PDF if the section doesn't have a title). So restructure
the surrounding sections to reduce the section nesting depth.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-27 17:08:07 -08:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
50b32848c2 manual: give example where _INSTALL_TARGET = NO
The tutorial for autotools-package and cmake-package currently gives
the bad example of setting _INSTALL_TARGET to YES, which is the default.
So change this into an example with _INSTALL_TARGET = NO, and explain in
which case this is relevant.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-27 17:07:52 -08:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
13562ddd2a manual: more warnings to not use output/target
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-27 17:07:47 -08:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
65f66c170e manual: various fixes
Various consistency and correctness improvements.

Also removing some sentences that are not or no longer relevant.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-27 17:07:42 -08:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
1d989fafba manual: trivial fixes
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-27 17:07:39 -08:00
Peter Korsgaard
b40ec0b651 news.html: add 2012.11-rc1 annoucement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-19 09:12:23 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
47ee3051fc Update for 2012.11-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-17 23:55:55 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
e4f33d4a8c news.html: announce dev days report / next dev days
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-17 22:41:43 +01:00
Simon Dawson
ecd2353555 manual: minor tweaks
Minor grammatical and spelling tweaks to the manual content.

Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-16 22:24:42 +01:00
Samuel Martin
b04a6d7bda manual: contribute.txt: do not use --summary option with 'git format-patch'
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-16 08:43:47 +01:00
Samuel Martin
c7ece205fa manual: prerequisite.txt: add texinfo to the mandatory package list
Using the internal Buildroot toolchain backend, makeinfo, whom belongs to
the texinfo package, is required to build gcc and gdb.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-16 08:43:43 +01:00
Samuel Martin
b6584017b4 manual: add beyond-buildroot.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:55 +01:00
Samuel Martin
8cbd58f013 manual: add deprecated-list.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:55 +01:00
Samuel Martin
c39686fc88 manual: add pkg-list.txt (generated list of available packages)
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:55 +01:00
Samuel Martin
757eb1910e manual: add legal-info.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:55 +01:00
Samuel Martin
baa838e392 manual: add adding-package-tips.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:54 +01:00
Samuel Martin
6c61000c3a manual: add patch-policy.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:54 +01:00
Samuel Martin
6bdeb7420e manual: add download-infra.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:54 +01:00
Samuel Martin
0e886fc3f6 manual: add package-make-target.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:54 +01:00
Samuel Martin
a79a54a0e7 manual: add contribute.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:54 +01:00
Samuel Martin
3b785593b6 manual: add get-involved.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:54 +01:00
Samuel Martin
ea1fa83bc3 manual: add writing-rules.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:53 +01:00
Samuel Martin
cc02514f95 manual: faq.txt: rework and update
Also rename faq.txt -> faq-troubleshooting.txt

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:48 +01:00
Samuel Martin
b0cdae65f7 manual: add make-tips.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:58:52 +01:00
Samuel Martin
4ea3644afd manual: add prerequisite.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:58:49 +01:00
Samuel Martin
b4783b41a9 manual: adding-package-directory.txt: update, cleanup and typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:58:49 +01:00
Samuel Martin
df469937a5 manual: update rebuilding-packages.txt
- update "Understanding how to rebuild packages" section
- add "Understanding when a full rebuild is necessary" section

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:58:48 +01:00
Samuel Martin
483a1f8281 manual: customize-rootfs.txt: refactoring, misc. fixes and update
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:58:48 +01:00
Samuel Martin
a90382616c manual: rework using.txt and update common-usage.txt
Consider the second chapter: "starting-up", as a tutorial.
Assuming that, using.txt only contains the very first commands used to get
configure and build its very first target system.

So, the following subsection from using.txt have been to common-usage.txt:
- Offline builds
- Building out-of-tree
- Environment variables

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:58:48 +01:00
Samuel Martin
0119ef3778 manual: rework introduction.txt and add embedded-basics.txt
Split and rephrasing of introduction.txt.

Cross-toolchain explainations moved from introduction.txt into
embedded-basics.txt.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:58:44 +01:00
Samuel Martin
5e84b8b73c manual: rework the whole documentation stub
The new skeleton of the manual as it has been thought:
1.  About Buildroot:
     Presentation of Buildroot
2.  Starting up:
     Everything to quickly and easily start working with Buildroot
3.  Working with Buildroot
     Basics to make your work fitting your needs
4.  Troubleshooting
5.  Going further in Buildroot's innards
     Explaination of how buildroot is organised, how it works, etc
6.  Developer Guidelines
7.  Getting involved
8.  Contibuting to Buildroot
9.  Legal notice
10. Appendix

It is easy to distinguish two parts in this plan:
- Sections 1 to 4 mainly address people starting with Buildroot
- Sections 5 to 10 are more focused on how to develop Buildroot itself

Most of the existing sections have just been moved in the hierarchy,
few were split and dispatch in, what i think was the relevant section,
and numerous others have been created.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:58:38 +01:00
Samuel Martin
17feaf0016 manual: set toc depth to 4 for html outputs
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:49:57 +01:00
Samuel Martin
b566e8cb56 manual: make clean target consistent with others in buildroot
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:49:48 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
cf76170cc3 adding-package-generic.txt: BR2_SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR is no more
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-07 00:10:43 +01:00
Luca Ceresoli
db961da67f legal-info: support per-package hooks
Useful to produce extra warnings for packages that have special
licensing-related issues.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-04 13:33:29 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
6c3e3ad419 New top-level directory: system
This directory groups the following elements:
 * the default root filesystem skeleton
 * the default device tables
 * the Config.in options for system configuration (UART port for
   getty, system hostname, etc.)
 * the make rules to apply the system configuration options

Even though the skeleton and device tables could have lived in fs/, it
would have been strange to have the UART, system hostname and other
related options into fs/. A new system/ directory makes more sense.

As a consequence, this patch also removes target/Makefile.in, which
has become useless in the process.

[Peter: fixup TARGET_SKELETON settings / documentation to match]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-04 12:51:08 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
598aea4b61 docs/manual: update to host-pkgconf
Update the manual to match now that we have moved to pkgconf instead of
pkg-config.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-10-29 22:06:19 +01:00
Samuel Martin
93e4785aa4 manual: remove Manual Makefile section
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-10-21 21:39:43 +02:00
Marek Belisko
a84840bfe9 Add FAQ entry how to properly add package from github.
Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@open-nandra.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-10-08 21:25:45 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
aa8ba9608d doc: update after gettext changes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
CC: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-09-20 21:34:34 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
288b73995a Prepare for 2012.08
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-08-31 10:49:41 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
8437b56258 Prepare for 2012.08-rc3
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-08-25 22:47:23 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
576aafbd28 docs/manual: fix cross-reference
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-08-21 12:02:51 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
b58c83ae99 Update for 2012.08-rc2
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-08-15 12:11:48 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d40d77ff70 docs: update links to the manual
In addition to the HTML version, also publish the PDF and Text
versions of our manual.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-08-02 10:25:23 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4009cbbbf9 Update for 2012.08-rc1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-08-01 20:46:31 +02:00
Maxime Ripard
e61153cf97 doc: Update the documentation to mention the new PKG_INSTALL_INIT_ variables
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-30 23:12:17 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
6b36d54118 docs: announce the upcoming Buildroot developer meeting
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-22 18:41:13 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
8141ccf380 doc: minor documentation fixes after package infrastructure changes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-17 20:27:05 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
2359e1223f Clean up naming of old GENTARGETS infrastructure
With the renaming of XXXTARGETS to xxx-package, the names of the
pkg-xxx.mk files is inconsistent, as well as some internal names in
the documentation.  These inconsistencies are cleaned up here.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>

 ...kages-autotargets.txt => adding-packages-autotools.txt} |    4 ++--
 ...packages-cmaketargets.txt => adding-packages-cmake.txt} |    4 ++--
 docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt                  |   12 ++++++------
 ...packages-gentargets.txt => adding-packages-generic.txt} |    4 ++--
 docs/manual/adding-packages.txt                            |    6 +++---
 package/Makefile.in                                        |    6 +++---
 package/{pkg-autotargets.mk => pkg-autotools.mk}           |    0
 package/{pkg-cmaketargets.mk => pkg-cmake.mk}              |    0
 package/{pkg-gentargets.mk => pkg-generic.mk}              |    0
 9 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-17 20:24:03 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
46fa5cbfb8 Rename XXXTARGETS to xxx-package
With the introduction of a specific macro for host targets, it was decided
to also make the names of the macros more intuitive: generic-package,
autotools-package and cmake-package.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2012-07-17 20:22:41 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
c98337911c pkg-infra: add host-xxx-package macro
Create host-generic-package, host-autotools-package and
host-cmake-package macros.  Such a macro is more intuitive to use than
the $(call ...,host) construct.  Also it speeds things up by having
one less $(call ...) evaluation.

Also includes documentation update, but not for buildroot.html.

This brings the time for 'make -qp' (which is used by bash-completion)
down from 1.85s to 1.35s on my laptop.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-17 20:17:33 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d56422a51a doc: get rid of the old HTML-only documentation
Users keep falling on this documentation, which is no longer kept
up-to-date with the developments. Get rid of it now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-17 19:42:40 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
c6580011f1 doc: Add FAQ entries from the old HTML-only documentation
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-17 19:42:04 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
1bb7a8ee4b manual: add advice about GPL compliance for Buildroot
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-17 19:06:29 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
00ba118fca manual: document usage of the legal-info feature
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2012-07-17 19:06:27 +02:00
Nathan Lynch
fe8d4626f0 docs: describe "file" and "local" methods in LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD
Based on description by Thomas Petazzoni at:
http://free-electrons.com/blog/buildroot-2011-11/

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-07-02 07:32:37 +02:00
Nathan Lynch
9fd16a175b docs: rework LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD documentation
The current structure of the LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD paragraph would make
it difficult to add documentation for the "file" and "local" methods.
There are enough possible values for LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD that
describing them in a sub-list seems to work well, which makes it
easier to add documentation for new methods.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-07-02 07:31:47 +02:00
Nathan Lynch
c62b04ce9a docs: update LIBFOO_SITE to describe use of filesystem paths
Buildroot supports the use of local filesystem paths in LIBFOO_SITE
since the 2011.11 release, but this is not documented in the manual.
Fix this and slightly reword the surrounding doucmentation
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-07-02 07:28:34 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
f809eb2021 news.html: add 2012.05 announcement mail link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-31 23:27:09 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
bce34ab199 Update for 2012.05
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-30 23:23:07 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
3729718350 docs/docs.html: Point users to html asciidoc documentation
Rather than the outdated buildroot.html. The asciidoc documentation is
still not autogenerated from git, instead a static snapshot is made per
release (like we did for /downloads/buildroot.html).

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-30 22:39:13 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
0b0d7badb0 Update for 2012.05-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-25 21:09:50 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
b07ad40c1d Update for 2012.05-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-18 22:50:37 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
4d1c69dd10 docs/news.html: add 2012.05-rc1 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-17 23:59:21 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
7febf49c98 docs/header.html: freshmeat got renamed to freecode
As pointed out by Gustavoz on IRC.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-14 22:15:27 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
9f7bf3b63d Update for 2012.05-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-05-10 19:07:20 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
eb19e82861 docs/git.html: slightly reword for git
Some of the wording didn't make much sense after we moved from svn to git.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-04-25 23:07:27 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
3d629c405f docs/header.html: Add link to patchwork
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-04-21 13:18:44 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
9bf301212b docs/news.html: Fix typo in Thomas' name
Sorry about that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-04-21 13:17:31 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
c5854d2e6f website: announce autobuild.buildroot.org
And add a link to it in the menu.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-04-20 16:36:18 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
b7285d0058 Move the manual build infrastructure to docs/manual/manual.mk
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-04-20 00:00:29 +02:00
Stephan Hoffmann
040f6a325f Add documentation for <pkg>-rebuild and <pkg>-reconfigure
Since these two special make targets are very useful but not yet
mentioned in the documentation I added them to the make help and
the manual.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Hoffmann <sho@reLinux.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-04-07 19:38:44 +02:00
Alvaro G. M
0a4856ce27 DOWNLOAD: change $1=DIRECTORY_URL, $2=FILE_NAME to $1=FULL_FILE_URL, $2=FILE_NAME
This modifies the definition of DOWNLOAD to receive two arguments:
the first one is the full URL of the file to download, whereas the second
(and optional) is the name the file will have once downloaded.

Same thing with the SOURCE_CHECK_WGET and SCP functions.

All calls to these functions have been changed to the shortest form of
the new API, except for toolchains acquisition. Since there is quite a
number of different toolchains this call to DOWNLOAD is better set to the
generic one.

Signed-off-by: Alvaro G. M <alvaro.gamez@hazent.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Stephan Hoffmann <sho@relinux.de>
Downloading Microblaze LE toolchain works on a clean install
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-18 22:21:16 +01:00
Samuel MARTIN
6372f4e646 manual: update Config.in dependency explainations
[Peter: adjusted according to Arnout's suggestions]
Signed-off-by: Samuel MARTIN <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-18 22:12:45 +01:00
Samuel MARTIN
22937a3750 manual: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Samuel MARTIN <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-18 22:08:01 +01:00
Samuel MARTIN
d41e115395 docs: fix busybox url
Signed-off-by: Samuel MARTIN <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-18 22:06:34 +01:00
Samuel MARTIN
1e06a030e6 docs/buildroot.html: add new manual location and warning about this page
Signed-off-by: Samuel MARTIN <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-18 22:05:03 +01:00
Samuel MARTIN
955714a0b7 docs/buildroot.html: cleanup trailing whitespaces
Signed-off-by: Samuel MARTIN <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-18 22:03:34 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
9fc4359144 Update copyright year
We're in 2012 by now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-01 14:04:54 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
7182cf9a01 docs/news.html: add 2012.02 announcement mail link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-03-01 13:58:40 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
03ceab6d16 Update for 2012.02
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-29 23:19:47 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
6d24b41b09 Update for 2012.02-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-27 16:49:38 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
3d6ff4f527 Update for 2012.02-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-19 23:16:50 +01:00
Maxime Ripard
00dbf19c38 Add documentation for makedev
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-19 22:56:30 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
8b67554a3f news.html: add 2012.02-rc1 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-12 23:58:45 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
14c2442858 Update for 2012.02-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-12 23:22:29 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
731f3dfa21 docs: customize-toolchain: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-09 23:32:02 +01:00
Samuel MARTIN
2c4de62b14 docs: Add customizing toolchain section
Signed-off-by: Samuel MARTIN <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-09 23:23:42 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
93e56f5210 manual: update download helper information
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-06 23:26:39 +01:00
Maxime Ripard
d36f64e8d9 doc: document <foo>_DEVICES / _PERMISSIONS
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-02-01 23:06:13 +01:00
Shawn J. Goff
e9378d9f1e Documentation: quotes around TARGET_CC command.
When ccache is enabled, TARGET_CC is "ccache gcc". Without quotes,
when assigning CC=$(TARGET_CC), only "ccache" gets assigned to CC.

Signed-off-by: Shawn J. Goff <shawn7400@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-01-31 10:39:21 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
14e9f44c07 header.html: fixup cgit link
The strange caching issue still not resolved, so atleast make sure we're
using the working variant.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-01-31 10:25:30 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
2e8aac2294 news.html: announce buildroot developer day at FOSDEM
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-01-31 10:24:24 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
b0bcafc6a0 Remove java support
Has been marked as broken since July 2010 (39e6ba1b), and nobody has
stepped up to support it, so now finally remove it completely.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-01-12 22:08:56 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
f94f9a2397 docs: change official IRC channel to #buildroot
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-01-02 20:13:26 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
24c80c9bfd git.html: fix cgit link
There's an issue with the cgit installation, which causes
git.buildroot.net/buildroot (no trailing /) requests to return stale
results. The osuosl people are looking into it, but until then atleast
use the the correct URL on the website link.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-12-26 08:19:13 +01:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
0bf480856e repair ML search knob
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
2011-12-16 17:22:59 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
657d3155d5 news.html: add 2011.11 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-12-01 23:09:52 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
c29253ef2e Update for 2011.11
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-12-01 00:08:44 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
4dc18dc514 Update for 2011.11-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-26 22:05:20 +01:00
Trevor Woerner
7a63f1a08c docs: Fix assumed copy+paste error.
Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-22 20:59:37 +01:00
Trevor Woerner
a51194985a docs: Configuration path update
Update the procedure for modifying /etc/inittab's getty line with
the correct port and baud values to reflect their current names and
locations in the Buildroot configuration.

Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-21 23:17:52 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
6088ac0140 Update for 2011.11-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-18 14:00:24 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
e174184807 doc: update GENTARGETS/AUTOTARGETS/CMAKETARGETS on the number of arguments
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-13 21:30:33 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
bcd0158e31 doc: mention the CMAKETARGETS infrastructure in the list of infrastructures
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-13 21:30:20 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d0afbdad6b doc: more details about expressing dependencies in Config.in
[Peter: Minor tweak]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-13 21:28:50 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d031a031bd doc: mention how to format the Config.in file
[Peter: s/but/should as suggested by Michael S. Zick]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-13 21:28:11 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
939d0ab264 doc: suggest how to add suboptions
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-13 21:20:44 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
1b972b2189 news.html: add 2011.11-rc1 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-11 21:59:57 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
1507c39b76 Update for 2011.11-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-11-11 20:26:10 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d9944722c1 remove Glibc_vs_uClibc document
This document has nothing to do with Buildroot, and is probably a
leftover from the uClibc documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-10-25 12:21:00 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
41c1cb44cd manual: convert existing documentation to the asciidoc format
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-10-25 09:46:01 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
d1dd9588ae news.html: fix 2011.08 release date
Thanks to Michael S. Zick for noticing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-08-31 14:23:26 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
facd602dca Update for 2011.08
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-08-31 13:44:55 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
b131d4c366 news.html: add 2011.08-rc2 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-08-30 14:46:00 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
73f131ce7d Update for 2011.08-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-08-29 11:21:17 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
ade71396dc news.html: add 2011.08-rc1 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-08-29 09:32:15 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
7ff457cdb5 Update for 2011.08-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-08-04 22:31:30 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
9ab73b51e8 Update for 2011.05
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-05-27 16:18:21 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
effcc9a2a2 Update for 2011.05-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-05-24 15:02:23 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
8c30b67b31 news.html: add 2011.05-rc1 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-05-18 23:07:30 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
137a4d7e92 Update for 2011.05-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-05-18 22:03:57 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
b90b9cc70a docs: add favicon / robots.txt
In the past, these files of the buildroot website weren't under git
version control, but rather were static files added to the git checkout
used by the webserver.

This is no longer the case, so add them to git - And at the same time
use the Buildroot logo for the favicon, rather than reusing the busybox
one.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-04-04 22:21:47 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
26ca282bc9 website: add google analytics for statistics
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-03-01 23:20:16 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
b466e1564f news.html: add 2011.02 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-28 22:37:41 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
f3e79a7aae Update for 2011.02
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-28 21:54:22 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
37126f56c4 docs: fix /know/known/ typo
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-24 12:53:43 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
2d3d618b6a Update for 2011.02-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-24 10:10:16 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
bb6d3d9586 docs: cross toolchain is now installed into host/usr/bin.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-23 16:34:49 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
41300afd62 docs: make xconfig now uses libqt4
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-23 16:25:55 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
e743a01ee5 news.html: add 2011.02-rc1 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-15 12:07:39 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
51f8802d87 Update for 2011.02-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-14 22:38:01 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
e3d261779e Do not mention toolchain/uClibc/uClibc.config-locale
The uClibc configuration file toolchain/uClibc/uClibc.config-locale
does not exist anymore.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-08 15:43:39 +01:00
Bjørn Forsman
9639a9ab88 docs: add missing info about Bazaar (bzr) download method
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Nyström <daniel.nystrom@timeterminal.se>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-06 21:08:38 +01:00
Bjørn Forsman
f210ab4e2f docs: fix $(PKG)_SITE_METHOD names (UPPER CASE => lower case)
Currently, the documentation says $(PKG)_SITE_METHOD should have upper
case names such as SVN or GIT, but the implementation only accepts lower
case svn or git. This fixes the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Nyström <daniel.nystrom@timeterminal.se>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-06 21:08:28 +01:00
Gustavo Zacarias
dc5e4ca076 documentation: update buildroot internal toolchain usage
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-02-02 22:46:57 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
ae3ae906e5 documentation: mention we can't use the distro toolchain as external
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-01-30 20:13:44 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
07cb06962c Use <code> instead of <pre> to improve formatting
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-01-30 20:13:44 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
2eefd74b0d Remove more or less inexact option concerning custom target skeleton
We discourage the addition of custom target skeleton into the official
Buildroot tree, so let's not encourage users to do this in the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-01-30 20:13:43 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
7af45b8ae0 Update documentation about external toolchain
Reword the documentation on external toolchain to take into account
the new features added since 2010.11 concerning external toolchain
profiles.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-01-30 20:13:43 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
43d7e91f28 Explain why we don't support ELDK toolchains.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-01-30 20:13:43 +01:00
Bjørn Forsman
5bd96726f3 doc: add CMAKETARGETS documentation
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2011-01-26 23:22:32 +01:00