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Peter Korsgaard
4d831ce673 docs/website: update for 2017.02.4
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-07-04 19:25:55 +02:00
Maxime Hadjinlian
cc2cadd082 manual: add documentation about DL_DIR
And at the same time don't encourage use of BR2_DL_DIR

Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-04 17:19:08 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
4bd21d3e95 docs/manual: document hashes for license files
[Peter: use sha256 in example]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Rahul Bedarkar <rahulbedarkar89@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-07-03 18:03:51 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a0c9b36b80 docs/manual: update details about hashes
This commit updates the manual about hashes, fixing a number of
issues:

 - Adding the .hash file should no longer be optional: it *must* be
   added. Therefore the wording "You can add ..." is changed to "When
   possible, you must add ...".

 - We are now checking hashes for Git downloaded packages, so fix this
   as well, and indicate more clearly which download methods have hash
   checking.

 - We no longer want to have auto-generated patches be downloaded
   through <pkg>_PATCH because such patches are not stable over time,
   and their hash can change. For example, downloading patches from
   github.com should no longer be done.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-07-03 00:05:18 +02:00
Peter Seiderer
487e9382f6 manual: fix test-pkg missing.config file name
Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-02 00:36:28 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
56f21c283c manual: update old references to support/scripts
There were still some references to the old location of the scripts in
the manual. Replace them by utils/.

While we're at it, remove the redundant ./ at the beginning of some of
the example commands.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 19:43:46 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
7ca9fc3170 tools: rename to 'utils'
After some discussion, we found out that "tools" has the four first
letters identical to the "toolchain" subfolder, which makes it a bit
unpractical with tab-completion. So, this commit renames "tools" to
"utils", which is more tab-completion-friendly.

This has been discussed with Arnout and Yann.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 18:07:00 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
afdb545b28 tools: new tool to filter the output of make
Add brmake, a small script that redirects the build output log to a
file, keeping just Buildroot's own messages, with the date+time added
at the start of the line.

We need to unbuffer the output of make so that, when the script is
interrupted (SIGINT, ^C), there is no lingering output not yet digested
by the logger loop.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 17:56:11 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
27b7bd6ad0 tools: move get-developers out of support/scripts/
Move it to the top-level tools/ directory, so that it is easier to
find for users.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 17:53:04 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
afff1ce5b0 tools: move test-pkg out of support/scripts
Move it to the top-level tools/ directory, so that it is easier to
find for users.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 17:50:52 +02:00
Waldemar Brodkorb
85b36daa94 docs: known issues no longer valid
Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-07-01 12:56:21 +02:00
Baruch Siach
533a3321b0 docs/manual: drop mention of removed external toolchains
The CodeSourcery x86 and sh, the ADI Blackfin, and the Xilinx Mircoblaze
external toolchain profiles have all been removed. Update the manual.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-06-20 22:12:54 +02:00
Baruch Siach
e251bdbe8d docs/manual: update external toolchain advantages list
Buildroot can build non-uClibc toolchains internally for quite some time now.
Update the manual text.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-06-20 22:10:42 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
ac187d7e2c docs/website: update for 2017.02.3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-06-02 15:18:55 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
24d6c5258e docs/website/news.html: add 2017.05 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-06-01 10:16:15 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
dd2020aadf Update for 2017.05
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-05-31 23:55:40 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
91a418c373 Update for 2017.05-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-05-30 10:28:45 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
8ab8f10afa Update for 2017.05-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-05-17 10:27:16 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
aee0ef5488 Update for 2017.05-rc1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-05-08 12:21:32 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
2fb8f97258 docs/website: update for 2017.02.2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-05-02 22:18:16 +02:00
Ricardo Martincoski
bb1c63763d docs/manual: PEP8 coding style for Python scripts
The advantages of using a pre-existing coding style instead of creating
our own are:
- documenting on the manual takes a single sentence;
- there are automatic tools to help during development/review.

So document that PEP8 recommendation should be followed.

Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-04-27 21:37:50 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
37308b979a support/test-pkg: run legal-info
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-17 15:54:33 +02:00
Rahul Bedarkar
bedb3be1c1 docs/manual: contribute: fix license string for Buildroot license
As per section 12.2 "Complying with the Buildroot license", Buildroot
is released under GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
But SPDX license string for Buildroot license in section 21.5
"Submitting patches" refers to only GPL version 2. Fix this
inconsistency by using correct SPDX identifier.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Bedarkar <rahulbedarkar89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-15 10:24:22 +02:00
Ricardo Martincoski
ad35a3a43d docs/manual: size of tab in package description
Explicitly state that one tab counts for 8 columns in package
description, leaving 62 characters to the text itself.
Update the text and the example in the two places where the Config.in
format is described.
Also mention a newline is expected between the help text itself and the
upstream URL.

This blob can help developers to understand the expected formatting.
Also, it can be referenced by reviewers.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/611289/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/606866/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/459960/

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-08 16:15:36 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
762cd7cdcb support/test-pkg: print number of toolchains and progress
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-06 21:51:29 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
0520b19e4b docs/manual: document the test-pkg script
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-06 21:50:59 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
ea3f540533 docs/website: update for 2017.02.1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-04-05 23:22:18 +02:00
Rahul Bedarkar
5286dec396 docs/manual: refer to SPDX License List
We want to use SPDX short identifier for license string as much as
possible. So refer to SPDX license list and use SPDX short identifier
for license strings in documentation.

Also remove License abbreviations that we have.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Bedarkar <rahulbedarkar89@gmail.com>
[Thomas: take into account suggestions from Arnout.]
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-01 15:11:18 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
ba6360316f core: enhance printvars
Currently, the output of printvars copntains the name of the variable,
its expanded value and its un-expanded value.

However, most of the time, we need the actual, expanded value, so it can
be re-used from a (non-Buildroot) infrastructure script, like a
post-build script, or a build-farm driver (e.g. a Jenkins job...)

Add two options that a user may set to change the output of printvars:
  - QUOTED_VARS, if set, will quote the value
  - RAW_VARS, if set, will print the unexpanded value

The new output by default only prints the expanded value now.

So that it can be used as such:

    $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION
    BUSYBOX_VERSION=1.26.2

    $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES QUOTED_VARS=YES
    BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES='ncurses util-linux'

    $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES RAW_VARS=YES
    BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES))

And it is even possible to directly evaluate it in a shell script:

    eval $(make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION QUOTED_VARS=YES)

Backward compatibility of the output is not maintained. It is believed
that scripts that depended on the previous output were very fragile to
begin with, because they had to filter the non-formatted output
(splitting on spaces or braces was not really possible, because values
could contain either).

Document printvars and its options in the manual; list it in the output
of 'make help'.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-29 21:55:14 +02:00
Rahul Bedarkar
b0b2cd662b docs/manual: document MPL licenses
Many packages are provided under MPL v1.1 and v2.0. Document it under
License abbreviations section.

Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Bedarkar <rahul.bedarkar@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-03-16 16:58:04 +01:00
Rahul Bedarkar
399ab122af docs/manual: document ISC license
Many packages are provided under ISC license. Document it under License
abbreviations section.

Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Bedarkar <rahul.bedarkar@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-03-16 16:57:41 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
03128ac1a7 docs/website/news.html: mention that 2017.02 is a LTS release
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-03-10 12:37:14 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
ca754a9f0f docs/website/news.html: add 2017.02 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-03-10 12:37:14 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
50e79d9538 docs/website/news.html: add 2016.11.3 release
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-03-10 12:37:14 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
01372b0d60 luarocks-package: lowercase the upstream name for LuaRocks
LuaRocks has a policy that the rockspec and rock filenames are lower
case. However, the upstream name may contain uppercase characters.
We have several packages like that in Buildroot. To simplify the
package .mk files, apply the lowercase from within the infra.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-05 22:01:39 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
75cf694bb0 luarocks-package: introduce PKG_NAME_UPSTREAM
Since we now require Lua package names to start with "lua", it is likely
that the Buildroot name is different from the upstream LuaRocks name.
Add a feature to the luarocks-package infra that makes it easier to
handle this situation: the package can explicitly specify the upstream
name in PKG_NAME_UPSTREAM, and that name will be used in PKG_ROCKSPEC,
PKG_SOURCE and PKG_SUBDIR.

Add an explanation of this feature to the manual. To make the example
relevant, it is changed to lua-foo, where the upstream name is plain
foo. To avoid confusion with the dependency on a native library, that
dependency is renamed to bar.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-02 23:25:55 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
448730a2e4 manual: luarocks: improve tutorial example
The license file in a luarocks package is always inside the subdir, so the
example should reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-02 22:43:02 +01:00
Angelo Compagnucci
bfad6ea9b1 docs/website: improve website speed
Currently the buildroot website is not leveraging common
techniques to have a better loading speed (browser caching,
gzip compression, deflating).
This commit provides an .htaccess files with all the needed to
enable mentioned features. This .htaccess only works if the
webserver has deflate, expires and headers modules enabled.

Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-03-01 22:17:31 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
083c0735e9 Update for 2017.02
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-02-28 22:00:23 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
87a23e538a Update for 2017.02-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-02-26 23:17:04 +01:00
Angelo Compagnucci
059029edf3 docs/website: Speedup javascript query
This commit limits results from the javascript query for selecting
messages from the mailing list.  It was not limited before.

Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-02-22 21:31:03 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
bedc0ccd70 Update for 2017.02-rc2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-02-21 00:20:50 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
de0985455e docs/website/news.html: fix link to 2017.02-rc1 tarball
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-02-13 21:01:33 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
c75f558705 docs/website: update release announcement with mailing list link
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-02-11 16:31:46 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
7320758cad Prepare for 2017.02-rc1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-02-11 15:47:27 +01:00
Luca Ceresoli
60a94a39d9 docs/manual: centralize recommendations about BR2_DL_DIR
We currently have two places where we recommend where BR2_DL_DIR
should be set: "Environment variables" and "Location of downloaded
packages". The former recommends setting BR2_DL_DIR in the .config,
the latter kind of endorses using ~/.bashrc.

We prefer suggesting the ~/.bashrc way since it avoids downloading the
same file multiple times, and anyway it's wise to have all the details
in a unique place. So remove the .config suggestion from "Environment
variables" and let it just point to "Location of downloaded packages".

Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-02-07 14:55:02 +01:00
Luca Ceresoli
428145838b docs/manual: suggest 'YES' as the value for LIBFOO_GIT_SUBMODULES
The manual mentions LIBFOO_GIT_SUBMODULES but does not tell what value
it should have. The implementation only checks whether the variable is
non-empty, but we should suggest a specific value to avoid people
wondering what they have to set, and to try setting weird values.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: Ricardo Herrero <ricardo.herrero@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-02-07 14:47:04 +01:00
Angelo Compagnucci
18426200e6 docs/website: switching from gmane to nabble
Gmane mailing list infrastructure is broken from some time,
switching to nabble both for rss and search services.

Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-02-05 22:47:29 +01:00
Angelo Compagnucci
aa32078ed8 docs/website: fix google feed API
Google deprecated feed api to cenvert rss to json, switching
to yahoo yql. This patch also reorganize the javascript code
to accomodate the fixings.

Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-02-05 22:47:21 +01:00
Angelo Compagnucci
ad2f351a1d docs/website: bump jquery and bootstrap
This patch bumps jquery and bootstrap to the latest versions.

Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-02-05 22:47:01 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
21d3f12289 docs/website/sponsors.html: Google and Mind sponsors of FOSDEM 2017 meeting
This commit updates the sponsors page on our web site to indicate that
Google and Mind are sponsoring the Buildroot Developers Meeting at
FOSDEM 2017 in Brussels.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-02-01 21:52:10 +01:00
Francois Perrad
7f102d8284 pkg-perl: add PREFER_INSTALLER variable
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
[Thomas: tweak documentation.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2017-01-29 14:54:08 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
f46ac03518 Makefile, manual: Bump copyright year
Happy 2017!

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-01-27 19:10:22 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
a3e4b0fb53 Update for 2016.11.2
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-01-25 09:55:14 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
bbc7a1ffa2 docs/website/news.html: correct announcement link end tags (</a> vs <a>)
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-01-25 08:53:06 +01:00
Marcus Hoffmann
fc67850dfa docs: Add bc to required tools
We check for bc under required packages.  It should be listed as such in the
docs.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Hoffmann <m.hoffmann@cartelsol.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2017-01-06 12:18:30 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
67f23a77c2 Update for 2016.11.1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-12-29 22:24:06 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
e09e1873a1 support/dependencies: ensure we have 'file' on the host
Recently, the autoconf macros for libtool started using '/usr/bin/file'
to determine the type of library that is generated by the toolchain.
Packages that use this recent version of the libtool autoconf macros
will fail in a rather dramatic way when /usr/bin/file is not present
on the host: the package will still build but no shared library is
generated, which in turn may cause build failures in other packages
that link with it.

For example, libpng's configure determines that it is not possible to
build a shared library on MIPS64 because the expected output from 'file'
is not present. Therefore, only a static libpng.a is built. Later,
bandwithd links with -lpng but it doesn't use the pkg-config's
Private-Libs (because it's not linking statically) and it doesn't have
access to the NEEDED reference from the shared library. Therefore, it
doesn't link with zlib and fails with

    pngrutil.c:(.text+0x55c): undefined reference to `inflate'

We cant use host-file because it is itself an autotools package and is
itself using libtool, so this would be a chicken-n-egg problem. Besides,
the libtool script really wants to call /usr/bin/file, so it would not
even find our host-file anyway.

So, just require that '/usr/bin/file' is present on the host.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-27 18:02:42 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
7f0f83296f docs/website/news.html: add 2016.11 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-12-19 23:48:12 +01:00
Romain Naour
65395920b5 doc/manual: document the new waf-package infra variables
Document LIBFOO_WAF_OPTS, LIBFOO_BUILD_OPTS, LIBFOO_INSTALL_STAGING_OPTS
and LIBFOO_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS.

Also document LIBFOO_CONF_OPTS which was missing in waf-package
reference.

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-11 18:03:59 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
d64735fca0 docs/manual: document the waf-package infra
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
[Thomas: adjust to the changes in the infra, fix typos.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-02 22:36:49 +01:00
Danomi Manchego
c3dd221c6f docs/manual: fix FOO_PKGDIR name and definition
Change "foo" references to "libfoo" in section that defines variables
explicitly stated to relate to a "libfoo" package.

Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-12-02 21:40:36 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
a7eb052ff8 Update for 2016.11
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-11-30 23:16:22 +01:00
Lucile Quirion
bf116466d2 docs/manual: fix typo
Also remove dangling reference to virtual package lists.

Signed-off-by: Lucile Quirion <lucile.quirion@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-11-29 23:28:25 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
93106e9e1f Update for 2016.11-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-11-28 23:48:55 +01:00
Jerry Evans
d082d20a8a docs/manual: fix documentation about BR2_EXTERNAL_<name>_PATH variable
The BR2_EXTERNAL documentation improperly tells to use the
BR2_EXTERNAL_<name>_DIR variable to reference the location of the
BR2_EXTERNAL directory. But in fact the variable is named
BR2_EXTERNAL_<name>_PATH.

In addition, some closing double quotes were missing.

This commit fixes both of those issues.

Signed-off-by: Jerry Evans <g4@novadsp.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-11-20 15:55:22 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
789c731343 Update for 2016.11-rc2
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-11-13 20:57:03 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
857ac5502d docs/website: update news with 2016.11-rc1 release e-mail link
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-11-04 10:09:34 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a6ba768e9f Update for 2016.11-rc1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-11-03 23:32:26 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
6bb30bd7e5 website: add Free Electrons as a current sponsor
Free Electrons sponsored the Buildroot Developers Meeting at ELCE 2016
in Berlin by making a donation to IN-Berlin, the organization who hosted
the 3-day event.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-10-20 21:33:32 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
49f7c3220a website: update Free Electrons logo
This commit updates the Free Electrons logo of the Buildroot website to
the new logo of the company.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-10-20 21:33:29 +02:00
Danomi Manchego
556e9f3278 docs/manual: fix scanpypi path typos
Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-10-19 23:39:42 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
29673c8b1e docs/manual: document both user-facing br2-external variables
While BR2_EXTERNAL_<NAME>_PATH was already documented, it was not
made obvious that it could be reused in post-biuld, post-image and
in-fakeroot scripts.

The BR2_EXTERNAL_<NAME>_DESC variable was not documented at all.

Update the manual to fix this.

Note: a2x chokes on this:

    .Note:
    Both +BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_PATH+ and +BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_DESC+ are
      available [...]

and spits out a totally useless error message:

    a2x: ERROR: "xsltproc" --stringparam toc.section.depth 1 --stringparam
    callout.graphics 0 --stringparam navig.graphics 0 --stringparam
    admon.textlabel 1 --stringparam admon.graphic 0 --stringparam
    chunk.section.depth 0 --output "/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/docs/manual/manual.html"
    "/etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/xhtml.xsl"
    "/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/docs/manual/manual.xml" returned
    non-zero exit status 6

So, we had to resort to using different quoting styles for each
variables. They are not semantically equivalent, but the rendering
is the same with the default CSS (which we are using). That's gonna
be good-enough for now...

Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-10-19 23:20:43 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
4c75c3b807 docs/manual: document the br2-external desc: field
Docuement the new, optional desc: field for an external.desc file.

That part of the manual was starting to be a bit of a mess, so
reorganise it. Provide a complete br2-external tree example.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-16 13:01:02 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
339e1c9500 core: allow a br2-external tree to override a defconfig
Currently, it is not possible for a br2-external tree to override a
defconfig bundled in Buildroot, nor is it possible to override one from
a previous br2-external tree in the stack.

However, it is interesting that a latter br2-external tree be able to
override a defconfig:

  - the ones bundled in Buildroot are minimalist, and almost always
    build a toolchain, so a br2-external tree may want to provide a
    "better" defconfig (better, in the sense "suited for the project");

  - similarly for a defconfig from a previous br2-external tree.

But we can't do that, as the rules for the defconfigs are generated in
the order the br2-external trees are specified, all after the bundled
defconfigs. Those rule are patten-matching rules, which means that the
first one to match is used, and the following ones are ignored.

Add a new utility macro, 'reverse', inspired from GMSL, that does what
it says: reverse a list of words.

Use that macro to reverse the list of br2-external trees, so that the
latters win over the formers, and even over bundled ones.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-16 13:01:02 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
1b496d40e3 docs/manual: document multi br2-external
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-16 13:01:02 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
a71e311df6 docs/manual: add appendix to convert old br2-external trees
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
[Peter: slightly reword]
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-16 13:01:02 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
a88718a952 docs/manual: document the br2-external NAME
Update the manual with the new external.desc mandatory file.

Take the opportunity to add a section listing all mandatory files,
Config.in, external.mk and the new external.desc, instead of just
hinting about them in the external package recipes section.

Change the examples to use the NAME-suffixed variable instead of the
raw BR2_EXTERNAL variable.

Change all references to BR2_EXTERNAL elsewhere in the manual to now
use the 'br2-external tree' terminology.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-16 13:01:02 +02:00
Waldemar Brodkorb
3aa01695ea docs: update URL to uClibc-ng homepage
It is not necessary to update all mentioning of uClibc, but
at least we should point to the right homepage of the used
project.

Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-14 16:49:35 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
66634ea8fc website: add Mind as a sponsor for the ELCE16 meeting
Also move Openwide/SMILE down to the past sponsors. This also requires
all the row endings to move.

Note that I chose to mention Mind twice, once as current sponsor and
once as past sponsor.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-10-06 17:44:18 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
feb54bacfe docs/manual: no warranty on output of legal-info
Explicitly state that there is no warranty about the accuracy of the
content of the output of 'make legal-info'.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-10-03 23:19:07 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
73a6401606 docs/manual: update the linux tools section
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
[Thomas:
 - Adjust the Config.in example to show that we now need to "select
   BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_TOOLS"
 - Adjust the .mk file example to use $(LINUX_DIR) instead of $(@D)]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-09-22 12:32:34 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
a0eaee1b92 docs/manual: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-09-22 00:02:52 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
ef80327945 docs: website: update for 2016.08.1
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-09-21 23:24:31 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
813016df77 docs/manual: fix packages having a subdirectory
efl and matchbox no longer have a subdirectory containing multiple
packages, so they are no longer good examples of that. Mention qt5 and
gstreamer instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-09-21 17:08:49 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
589cbc61b0 docs/manual: add new section about the DEVELOPERS file and get-developer
[Peter: tweak wording and add xref as suggested by Arnout]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-09-21 09:17:58 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
6017cb8fbd docs/manual: update contribute.txt to cover get-developers
This commit updates the contribute.txt part of the manual to tell
people to use get-developers to get the appropriate "git send-email"
command when sending patches.

[Peter: use --cc instead of --to as suggested by Yann/Arnout]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-09-21 09:06:08 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
d4db4277ff manual: get rid of the lists of packages
We currently have four lists of packages in the manual:
  - the non-virtual target packages,
  - the virtual target packages,
  - the host packages,
  - the deprecated features.

Those list take more than half of the manual. They do not serve much
purpose except to show off.

After the recent discussion on the list [0], remove them all.

We can now get rid of our biggish and complex generating script (and its
companion library kconfiglib).

[0] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-September/171199.html

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-09-19 19:32:59 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4309092e34 docs/manual: update pkg-kconfig doc about <pkg>_KCONFIG_DOTCONFIG
Content provided by Yann E. Morin.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-09-17 14:46:04 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
7353967690 Merge branch 'next'
Quite some conflicts, so here goes ..

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-09-02 16:20:33 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
a895c27e5f docs/website/news.html: add 2016.08 announcement link
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-09-01 14:22:25 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
78e9914628 Update for 2016.08
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-09-01 11:30:19 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
7e981ed085 Update for 2016.08-rc3
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-08-30 08:18:50 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
9d1cce411b docs/website: remove reference to GMane
GMane is dead (at least its web interface), so it's no longer really
useful to reference it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-08-29 23:19:15 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
fba75c8f9e docs/manual: prepare-kconfig can be used as a dependency of documents
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-08-27 21:57:24 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
3c695928f5 doc/asciidoc: add possibility to define document dependencies
Currently, a document can not have dependencies, except for the purely
internal ones (like checking asciidoc version, and presence of dblatex).

For our own manual, this will come in handy when we introduce a
generated kconfig snippet, so we can actually make the manual depend on
that snippet being generated first.

For external documents, it can be used to depend on host-packages if
need be (e.g. a custom host packages that generates specific media files
included in the manual).

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-08-27 21:57:12 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
4802db3dad core: introduce a generated kconfig snippet
Add the infrastructure for adding generated kconfig snippet in the
menuconfig.

For now, the kconfig snippet is generated empty, the recipe for filling
it in will be introduced in sub-sequent patches.

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: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-08-27 21:44:57 +02:00
Romain Perier
03f1237717 docs/manual: Document the variable $(PKG)_DL_OPTS
This adds a description of the optional variable $(PKG)_DL_OPTS. When it
is set, this option passes additional options to the downloader.

Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-08-23 14:59:01 +02:00
Romain Naour
9c6b9a2bb0 docs: libtool patches are not handled by legal-info infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
[Thomas: slightly reword with Yann's suggestion.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-08-19 23:16:23 +02:00
Romain Naour
426389688d docs: update legal-notice.txt
Since 1273636fc6 applied patches are also
saved.

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-08-19 16:20:47 +02:00