In the manual, add a note that packages can use $(FOO_PKGDIR) to get the
path to the directory containg the .mk and Config.in files, if they need
it to e.g. copy files from there, like startup scripts, systemd units or
any other resource.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, we forcibly override BR2_EXTERNAL when building the manual,
so as to avoid referring to packages therein from the manual.
However, when generating the lists of packages, we limit ourselves to
scanning for packages in (Buildroot's) TOPDIR and never search in
BR2_EXTERNAL. So, we do not really need to override BR2_EXTERNAL when
generating the manual to achieve the same result.
Furthermore, we're only looking for packages that are defined in the
sub-menu "Target packages", and never anywhere else, and especially not
in the sub-menu "User-provided options".
Finally, we're soon to completely eliminate use of BR2_EXTERNAL in
Kconfig altogether, so that would no longer have any impact anyway.
So, just leave BR2_EXTERNAL alone when generating the manual.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, packages that need to exclude parts of the archives when
extracting (e.g. to gain space), like gcc or toolchain-external, have to
provide custom extract commands, just for the sake of adding a bunch of
--exclude directives when calling tar.
Add a new variable that packages may set, to provide a space-separated
list of patterns to exclude.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Reviewed-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This note is no longer needed, so remove it.
Tarballs generated by GitHub are always the same, so hashes can be
checked.
This reverts commit 9474cc2594.
[Thomas: fix other remaining references to not using hashes for
github, as noticed by Maxime Hadjinlian.]
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Allow the BR2_CCACHE_DIR .config option to be overriden by the
BR2_CCACHE_DIR env variable.
This is useful for big projects where in some cases the developers home
directory might be a NFS mount (slow) and real production builds aren't.
Update documentation accordingly as well.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo.zacarias@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Document the new graph-size target and its possibilities.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When building in a different output directory than the original build,
there will currently be a lot of ccache misses because in many cases
there is some -I/... absolute path in the compilation. Ccache has an
option CCACHE_BASEDIR to substitute absolute paths with relative paths,
so they wil be the same in the hash (and in the output).
Since there are some disadvantages to this path rewriting, it is made
optional as BR2_CCACHE_USE_BASEDIR. It defaults to y because the
usefulness of ccache is severely reduced without this option.
In addition to CCACHE_BASEDIR, we also substitute away the occurences
of $(HOST_DIR) in the calculation of the compiler hash. This is done
regardless of the setting of BR2_CCACHE_USE_BASEDIR because it's
quite harmless.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The "Dynamic using mdev" and "Dynamic using eudev" /dev management
methods are using devtmpfs, just like "Dynamic using devtmpfs only",
on top of which they add either mdev or eudev. But their names might
suggest they use mdev only or eudev only.
Clarify their descriptions by adding "devtmpfs +" to make it
unambiguous.
[Thomas: rewrap the paragraphs in the manual. It makes the diff a lot
less readable, but we actually want the result to be wrapped.]
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This has been the best practice since a long time, but it was not
clearly stated in the manual. Now it is mandatory, so mention it
explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Added an alternative on patch versioning (the -v option) and added a
tip on how to automatically mark a previous commit as superseded.
[Thomas: minor tweaks.]
Signed-off-by: Francesco Nwokeka <francesco.nwokeka@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Now that mailman handles lists.buildroot.org lets use that everywhere in the
documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Error highlighted by the W3 HTML validator:
Error: No space between attributes.
At line 71, column 64
e="width:100%;"href="/download
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Recently, we've tried to have the manual lie at the top-level of the
site, to get a shorter URL.
However, that is broken: we do not need only a link the the HTML, but
also to the CSS and to any resource linked from the html (images...).
The server configuration has now been updated to add a redirect, so we
no longer need that symlink anyway. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Because of a limitation in how makedevs resolves names [0], usernames
and groupnames would be resolved with UIDs and GIDs from the host, not
the target.
Fixing makedevs would involve us rewriting a /etc/passwd and /etc/group
parser (not too complex, still not trivial).
Document that the user and group fields should only be numbers, not
names. Also, the manual is currently misleading, as an example indeed
uses names for the user and group fields. Fix that and expand the
explanations.
The mode field should also be numbers, not a rwx combo.
Slight typographical eye-candy about major/minor fields.
[0] it uses getpwnma(3) and getgrnam(3) to resolve names to IDs, and
those only resolve names on the host (i.e. there is no way to specify
a chroot-like feature)
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
It should point to the filesystem path on the server, not the HTTP virtual path.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This will give us a shorter URL, that we can more easily refer to in the
documetation itself, in help texts, on IRC...
[Peter: Use buildroot.org everywhere]
Suggested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit updates the Buildroot manual to document how to detail the
gcc version dependencies in Config.in comments of packages, like we do
for kernel headers version.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
GitHub has changed its layout, there is no longer any green nor grey
button, it's a link with a tiny icon that indicates if it's uploaded by
the maintainer or not.
In order to not confuse anyone, adding an image should make it clear.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lionel Orry <lionel.orry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Buildroot should now work with host installed python version 3. Update the
manual accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
While describing a package I though that the tab and 2 spaces was
already doing the margin for wrapping the help test (ie 70 char when
wrapping to 80) but apparently the full text need to fit 72 columns.
So this patch propose to document that fact in the two places where
the Config.in format is described.
Signed-off-by: Julien Viard de Galbert <julien@vdg.name>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Those issues were noticed by Thomas De Schampheleire during the
review, but they were forgotten when applying the patch.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: reworked a bit the phrasing, plus mention that Grub 2 is
supported.]
Signed-off-by: Noé Rubinstein <nrubinstein@aldebaran.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Also instead of using the generic word "timestamp" use the word "tag".
Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The following allows a user definition to specify that a created user
entry should not have a password value set. Original implementation
allowed a user definition to provide a password value of "=" (no quotes)
to generate a crypt-encoded empty string value. In some cases, it may be
desired to have no value specified for a user's password. By using a
value "-" for a password, no value will be set in the shadow value.
An example when this can be used is when logging into a terminal.
Logging into a session with an encoded empty password will prompt a user
to enter a password since it does not know the password is empty. If the
password field blank, a login session will not prompt for a password.
Signed-off-by: James Knight <james.knight@rockwellcollins.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
They are not needed, and other code blocks in the same file are not
indented either.
Remove those leading spaces, so all our code blocks look the same.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Adds functionality to the kconfig infrastructure to merge additional
configuration fragment files to the main configuration file of
kconfig packages, using support/kconfig/merge_config.sh
Typical use-case is when you want your configuration to be
kept in sync with an upstream (def)config file, but do require
some minor local modifications.
Disables -update-config and -update-defconfig targets when
fragment files are set.
[Thomas: take into account comments made by Arnout:
- Minor fixes in the documentation changes
- Add @ before the tests done in the $(1)-update-config and
$(1)-update-defconfig targets.]
Signed-off-by: Floris Bos <bos@je-eigen-domein.nl>
Tested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Gergely Imreh <imrehg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The names of steps are not obvious, so add this list to the manual.
Small formatting fix at the same time.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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>
