This patch reworks the section on root filesystem customization as follows:
- use labeled list instead of bulleted list to clarify the different methods
- move rootfs overlay and post-build scripts to the top and label them as
recommended.
- split post-image to a separate section, as it is not related to the target
filesystem customization
- line up post-build and post-image explanations, for example regarding
working directory of the script
- general expansion of some of the explanation
- general rewording
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch reworks the section on BR2_EXTERNAL as follows:
- move note about upstreaming to the chapter introduction
- streamline the section with the previously added section 'Recommended
directory structure', avoiding duplication.
- use $(BR2_EXTERNAL) rather than BR2_EXTERNAL when referring to file paths.
- some general rewording
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Although the user is free to choose where to put project-specific files, the
presentation 'Using Buildroot for real projects' [1] first described a
certain recommendation.
This patch briefly describes this recommendation in the form of a directory
structure overview, the details will be added in subsequent patches.
Since the section on BR2_EXTERNAL is logically connected to the directory
structure, this section is moved right after it.
[1] http://elinux.org/images/2/2a/Using-buildroot-real-project.pdf
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch expands the introduction text of chapter 'Project-specific
customization' by listing the type of customizations that can be performed
by a project.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
After the renaming of some sections, rename the corresponding files for
clarity.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Some source files of the manual merely contain inclusion of other files.
Especially at top-level this is unnecessary, and one could just as well add
these includes in manual.txt.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the chapter 'Configuration of other components' as
follows:
- remove separate customize-xxx-config.txt files in favor of one shared file
configure-other-componenents.txt
- use labeled list instead of separate sections, as the information in each
section is limited.
- simplify instructions for busybox/uclibc thanks to the kconfig-package
infrastructure
- rewrite instructions for Linux
- add instructions for Barebox
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch moves the tip on searching in the configuration editors into the
section 'Buildroot configuration', which is more logical.
The wording of that section is slightly adapted to fit this new part.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch performs some additional restructuring of the manual,
specifically in the User Guide. In detail:
- Rename 'Daily use' to 'General Buildroot usage'
- Move chapters 'make tips', 'Eclipse integration', and 'Advanced usage' as
sections under the 'General Buildroot usage' chapter.
- Rename 'Details on Buildroot configuration' into 'Buildroot configuration'
- Rework the 'Customization' section as follows:
- Move the short section on debugging the external toolchain wrapper into
the rest of the explanation on external toolchains.
- Remove the now redundant section on toolchains, as this is already
explained in much more detail in the 'Buildroot configuration' chapter.
- Move the sections on busybox/uclibc/kernel configuration from chapter
'Customization' into a separate chapter 'Configuration of other
components'.
- Rename the remaining part of the original 'Customization' chapter into
'Project-specific customization' and fold it together with the next
chapter 'Storing the configuration'
- Remove the chapter 'Going further in Buildroot innards' thanks to:
- Moving the chapter 'How Buildroot works' to the Developer guide.
- Moving the 'Advanced Buildroot usage' section to the 'General Buildroot
usage' chapter.
- Remove the chapter 'Hacking Buildroot' by:
- Adding a reference to adding packages to the 'Project-specific
customizations' chapter
- Leaving out the explicit reference to creating board support, as this is
part of the previous chapter already, so an extra reference is
redundant.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch renames the section 'Using Buildroot' into 'Buildroot quick
start' as real details about Buildroot usage will be in the User Guide
rather than in 'Getting Started'.
Additionally, add a cross-reference to the section about configuring
Buildroot.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Add atomic operations to the list of generic dependencies.
Since this is an architecture option, there is no comment string to be
added.
Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: use the new arch-option; remove comment string]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit updates the Buildroot manual regarding how gettext related
issues are handled, now that we have cases where the gettext package
should be selected even with glibc toolchains.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch does some general rewording of the 'Using buildroot' section
of the manual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the 'Getting Buildroot' section of the manual as follows:
- be more specific on the Buildroot release cycle
- refer to the download page of the website for details on snapshots and
git, instead of duplicating the information.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch makes some minor changes to the download page of the website:
- don't capitalize Daily Snapshots as there is no reason to.
- remove extra link to daily snapshots, as this link is already available on
the line below.
- add a link to the latest snapshot
- avoid 'Click here', especially if 'here' is not clickable
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the requirements section of the manual as follows:
- some general rewording
- move configuration editor dependencies above the download tools, as this
is the first thing people come in contact with.
- move sentence regarding -dev packages to configuration editor dependencies
and restrict to 'libraries'.
- clarify the download tools part.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch reworks the section 'Community resources' as follows:
- use a labeled list instead of subsections, as the content of each section
is so small that it does not deserve a real section.
Related to this, the anchors for each of these subsections are removed, as
referencing such anchors that do not correspond to a section boundary are
not displayed nicely.
- move the part about applying patches from patchwork to the Contributing
section in the Developer Guide
- reword some parts of the text
- add link texts to some links, instead of showing the URL directly, to make
the HTML / PDF display nicer.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The Getting Involved section is actually an overview of the ways to interact
with the Buildroot community, which is useful for developers _and_ users.
Therefore, this patch moves the section from the Developer Guide to the
Getting Started section, and renames it to 'Community Resources'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The list of buildroot events is outdated, a sign that the manual is not the
best place to refer to timely things like events. The wiki page is better
suited for such information.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The structure of the buildroot manual is not always clear. There is a large
number of chapters, and some chapters seem to overlap. The distinction
between general usage and developer information is not always clear.
This patch restructures the manual into four large parts:
- getting started
- user guide
- developer guide
- appendix
Except for the names of these parts, the section names are not yet changed.
Content-wise there are no changes yet either. This will be handled in
subsequent patches.
In order to achieve the introduction of a new level 'parts' above
'chapters', the section indicators (=, ==, ===, ...) of several sections
have to be moved one level down. Additionally, the leveloffset indication to
asciidoc has to be removed. Finally, to maintain more or less the same level
of detail in the table of contents, the toc.section.depth attribute is
reduced as well. Note that for some sections, less detail is visible now.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Images specified in the asciidoc sources (currently only the logo) are
displayed as the file name in the text version of the manual. This causes an
odd line to appear:
logo.png
Avoid this by setting the image representation macros to {empty} in
manual-text.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
When the asciidoc source contain URLs of the form:
http://example.com[An example website]
the text representation of the manual would only contain:
An example website
without displaying the actual URL.
This patch adds an asciidoc configuration file that sets the inline macros
for several URL types so that the display becomes:
An example website [http://example.com]
For URLs where no link text was provided, the display becomes:
http://example.com
which is the same as before.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch introduces support for asciidoc configuration files, specific for
each output format (html, text, pdf, ...). This is useful to make certain
tweaks in the document generation.
If a file docs/manual/asciidoc-<format>.conf is present, it is passed to
asciidoc as configuration file. If no file for the current format is
present, the options passed to asciidoc are empty.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
In the gendoc infrastructure, using an assignment of the form
FOO = docs/$(1)/bar
inside GENDOC_INNER does not work as expected: the $(1) value is empty here
and the value of FOO becomes 'docs//bar'.
Parameters $(2), $(3), etc. do not have this problem. The specific thing
about $(1) is that it is a parameter to GENDOC itself (indicating the
document to create) and passed transparently to GENDOC_INNER.
This is different from the package infrastructures, where $(1) is set from
$(pkgname). In fact, the same strategy could be used by the gendoc
infrastructure as well, as $(pkgname) resolves to 'manual' for file
docs/manual/manual.mk. This has the advantage that the described problem
does not occur.
Note that this means that if we want to use the same GENDOC infrastructure
for another document, it will have to reside in a separate directory than
the manual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The SOURCE references "LIBFOO_VERSION", should be "PYTHON_FOO_VERSION".
Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire < thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This patch adds documentation for the new kconfig-package infrastructure to
the manual.
Note that due to the simplicity of the infrastructure, the documentation
is not split in a 'tutorial' and a 'reference', like for the other
infrastructures. Instead, the usage is described in one section.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
[me: slight grammar fix 'copy -back- the configuration +back+ to...']
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
As reported in bug #7172 [0], setting BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS to a value
containing a $ sign can lead to unexpected results.
This is because it is very hard to know when the $ sign gets evaluated:
- in the Buildroot-level make
- in the shell called by the Buildroot-level make
- in the package's own build-system, either at configure time, in the
Makefile, in a shell in the Makefile...
So, it is very difficult to know how much escaping that would need.
A proposal is to use a shell variable to pass such values unmolested.
But it is not that simple either, since it still contains a $ sign, and
there is not much certainty as to when it would be evaluated.
Instead, just document this limitation, both in the help text for
BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS, and in the known-issues section in the manual.
Does not really fix#7172, but at least the limitation is documented.
[0] https://bugs.buildroot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7172
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Mike Zick <minimod@morethan.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Since the trailing slash is stripped from $($(PKG)_SITE) by pkg-generic.mk:
$(call DOWNLOAD,$($(PKG)_SITE:/=)/$($(PKG)_SOURCE))
so it is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The -s is missing in the documentation when teaching how to use 'git
format-patch' to automatically add the sob line.
Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_X_Y symbols can be used to denote the
lowest required kernel headers version, but also the highest supported
version. Document that.
Use the `...` construct instead of +...+ used eveywhere else, otherwise
asciidoc would render +<=+ to the ⇐ arrow, while `...` does no rendering
at all.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit improves the autotools-package infrastructure to support a
<pkg>_AUTORECONF_ENV variable, which allows a package maintainer to
pass additional variables in the environment of the autoreconf
execution. This is useful in the situation where configure.ac contains
shell commands using environment variables that are only executed when
autoreconf is run.
Signed-off-by: Rick Taylor <rick.taylor@cassidian.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit improves the scancpan script to automatically populate the
LICENSE_FILES variable using informations available in the Perl
package MANIFEST file.
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
python-numpy needs to be installed to the staging directory, since it
also installs some header files. Therefore, this commit extends the
Python package infrastructure to support staging installation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
It seems common knowledge to use git rebase in interactive mode
to fixup issues while respinning patch series, but I found it hard
to find any hint about it. Add a note for git beginners like me.
[Thomas: take into account Arnout's comment.]
Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Some perl packages may use environment variables as a hint to know how
to be configured.
That's for example the case for perl-net-ssleay that uses
OPENSSL_PREFIX, if it is set in the environment, as the prefix to
openssl.
Add a new variable that packages can set if they need extra environment
variables. Update the manual accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: enhance the commit log]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Although md5 is, for legacy reasons, a supported hash type,
it is not documented on purpose, since it is now known to
be weak.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add "graphviz" and "python-matplotlib" as requirements for graph
generation.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Dallas Clement <dallas.a.clement@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The inner-xxx-targets in the buildroot package infrastructures are
evaluated using $(eval) which causes variable references to be a bit
different than in regular make code. As we want most references to be
expanded only at the time of the $(eval) we should not use standard
references $(VAR) but rather use double dollar signs $$(VAR). This includes
function references like $(call), $(subst), etc. The only exception is the
reference to pkgdir/pkgname and numbered variables, which are parameters to
the inner block: $(1), $(2), etc.
This patch introduces consistent usage of double-dollar signs throughout the
different inner-xxx-targets blocks.
In some cases, this would potentially cause circular references, in
particular when the value of HOST_FOO_VAR would be obtained from the
corresponding FOO_VAR if HOST_FOO_VAR is not defined. In these cases, a test
is added to check for a host package (the only case where such constructions
are relevant; these are not circular).
Benefits of these changes are:
- behavior of variables is now again as expected. For example, setting
$(2)_VERSION = virtual in pkg-virtual.mk will effectively work, while
originally it would cause very odd results.
- The output of 'make printvars' is now much more useful. This target shows
the value of all variables, and the expression that led to that value.
However, if the expression was coming from an inner-xxx-targets block, and
was using single dollar signs, it would show in printvars as
VAR = value (value)
while if double dollar signs are used, it would effectively look like
VAR = value (actual expression)
as is intended.
This improvement is for example effective for FOO_DL_VERSION, FOO_RAWNAME,
FOO_SITE_METHOD and FOO_MAKE.
The correctness of this patch has been verified using 'make printvars',
'make manual' and 'make legal-info' before and after applying this patch,
and comparing the output.
Insight-provided-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The transitive dependencies make the graphs barely readable for large
configs, with a large number of packages.
So, just switch to not drawing the transitive dependencies by default.
By popular demand... ;-)
[Peter: reword]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc; Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add the list of virtual packages as an appendix to the manual.
Also reference this list from appropriate locations elsewhere in
the manual:
- in section 7.2.2. "Config.in file", after the existing explanations
on dependencies on target and toolchain options, on a linux kernel,
and on udev /dev management,
- in section 7.2.10. "Infrastructure for virtual packages", in the
provider Config.in and .mk explanations, to have the list of existing
symbols to select (in Config.in) and packages to provide (in .mk).
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The de facto standard terminology in the manual appears to be "package
metadata information"; fix a couple of inconsistent references to package
"meta-information" and "meta information".
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The correct capitalisation pattern is "GitHub"; fix manual and makefile
commentary.
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The correct capitalised form appears to be "BusyBox" rather than "Busybox";
fix all references to the latter form. (Most such references occur in the
manual and in commentary in package makefiles.)
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
As discussed on irc, there is a missing part in the BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR
example compared to the ASCII figure under customize-packages section.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Roy <sebastien.roy@savoirfairelinux.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
As discussed on the mailing list [1], remove the limited explicit list of
contributors in favor of the general mention of 'The Buildroot developers'.
Add a copyright statement.
Move the generation info to the front.
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2014-May/097589.html
[Peter: remove trailing +, minor rewording]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
People reading the Buildroot manual online cannot immediately know what its
license is (unlike reading it from within the source tree). To avoid any
discussion, explicitize this in the manual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Fix a few typos on the support page, and add correct HTML <p> </p> tag
pairs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The website still used some uclibc.org URLs which can now use buildroot.org.
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The manual contains details about how users can contribute to
buildroot. The website also had such a list, but with much less detail and
not containing all topics.
In order to avoid duplicating this information, simply list the different
topics without detail on the website, and add a link to the relevent
chapter of the manual.
[Peter: slightly reword]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
There will soon be new options to the graph-depends script, which we
can only sanely pass via environment variables.
Currently, we use such an environment variable to pass the maximum depth
of the dependency graph; the name of that variable is explicit that it
contains just the depth.
However, there has been so far no release of Buildroot which would make
use of that variable, so no user should have come to rely on it.
Rename that variable so it is less specific, and more generic, so it can
be used to pass more options to graph-depends.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The Buildroot manual currently does not contain any mention of the
<pkg>_INSTALL_IMAGES_CMDS which could potentially be of interest when
developing a new 'generic-package'.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com>
CC: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Add PRE_*_HOOKS to all the different steps through which a package may go.
This will help avoid using POST_*_HOOKS to do tasks that should be done
in the PRE_*_HOOKS of the next step.
Otherwise, when the user would do a make foo-re<step>, this would not do
what was really intented, the POST_*_HOOK of the preceding step not
being executed.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
[ThomasDS: rebase, add images hooks to manual]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[ThomasDS: some rewording, add <buildroot> path prefix in example]
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The manual has this sentence for the dependency on a C library *and* a
toolchain feature:
foo needs an (e)glibc toolchain, or foo needs an (e)glibc toolchain
w/ C++ support
And then, just below, the comment text for C++ is just 'C++', not
'C++ support'.
Fix that, and add a bit of indentation too.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
For asciidoc, a string like '+these are some words+' will be displayed in
monospace font. Such sequences are identified by searching for a matching
pair of + signs in the same block.
The string 'C++' also contains such + signs. In most cases, this does not
pose a problem and no escaping is necessary. However, if 'C++' occurs twice
in the same block, the + signs will be matched to each other, and asciidoc
formats all text between them as monospaced text. In this case, escaping of
one of these 'C++' occurances is necessary to get the right formatting.
In one place of the manual, there is a sentence that causes such a problem:
"you only have to tell whether your toolchain supports C++ or not and
whether it has built-in RPC support. If your external toolchain uses
the 'uClibc' library, then you have to tell Buildroot if it supports
largefile, IPv6, RPC, wide-char, locale, program invocation, threads
and C++."
Commit 082dec8ce4 was based on a patch fixing
this problem in one place of the manual, but was incorrectly changed while
committing.
This patch reverts the incorrect changes in that commit, and solves the
problem correctly.
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Asciidoc supports two syntaxes for section titles: two-line titles (title
plus underline consisting of a particular symbol), and one-line titles
(title prefixed with a specific number of = signs).
The two-line title underlines are:
Level 0 (top level): ======================
Level 1: ----------------------
Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++
and the one-line title prefixes:
= Document Title (level 0) =
== Section title (level 1) ==
=== Section title (level 2) ===
==== Section title (level 3) ====
===== Section title (level 4) =====
The buildroot manual is currenly using the two-line titles, but this has
multiple disadvantages:
- asciidoc also uses some of the underline symbols for other purposes (like
preformatted code, example blocks, ...), which makes it difficult to do
mass replacements, such as a planned follow-up patch that needs to move
all sections one level down.
- it is difficult to remember which level a given underline symbol (=-~^+)
corresponds to, while counting = signs is easy.
This patch changes all two-level titles to one-level titles in the manual.
The bulk of the change was done with the following Python script, except for
the level 1 titles (-----) as these underlines are also used for literal
code blocks.
This patch only changes the titles, no other changes. In
adding-packages-directory.txt, I did add missing newlines between some
titles and their content.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import mmap
import re
for input in sys.argv[1:]:
f = open(input, 'r+')
f.flush()
s = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0)
# Level 0 (top level): ====================== =
# Level 1: ---------------------- ==
# Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ===
# Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ====
# Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ =====
def replace_title(s, symbol, replacement):
pattern = re.compile(r'(.+\n)\%s{2,}\n' % symbol, re.MULTILINE)
return pattern.sub(r'%s \1' % replacement, s)
new = s
new = replace_title(new, '=', '=')
new = replace_title(new, '+', '=====')
new = replace_title(new, '^', '====')
new = replace_title(new, '~', '===')
#new = replace_title(new, '-', '==')
s.seek(0)
s.write(new)
s.resize(s.tell())
s.close()
f.close()
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The manual now features a new section with instructions about how to add a
virtual package.
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: move down statement about provider's .mk]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Some packages need a host-python interpreter with a version different
from the one installed in the target to run some build scripts (eg.
scons requires python2 to run, to build any kind of packages even if
the python interpreter selected for the target is python3).
In such cases, we need to add the right host-python dependency to the
package using the host-python-package infrastructure, and we also want
to invoke the right host python interpreter during the build steps.
This patch adds a *_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON variable that can be set either
to 'python2' or 'python3'. This variable can be set by any package
using the host-python-package infrastructure to force the python
interpreter for the build. This variable also takes care of setting
the right host-python dependency.
This *_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON variable only affects packages using the
host-python-package infrastructure.
If some configure/build/install commands are overloaded in the *.mk
file, the right python interpreter should be explicitly called.
If the package defines some tool variable (eg.: SCONS), the variable
should explicitly call the right python interpreter.
[Thomas:
- fixes to the commit log and documentation suggested by Yann
- rename the variable from <pkg>_FORCE_HOST_PYTHON to
<pkg>_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON, as suggested by Yann
- do not allow any other value than python2 and python3 in
<pkg>_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON, as suggested by Yann.]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[Thomas: fix to actually use the correct syntax.]
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
The manual always uses the format with multiple dependencies. This only
add an example where is a single dependency to show that this format is
applicable regardless of the number of dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Since we use Google+ to share our news, this add a logo on the menu bar,
which links to the Buildroot profile.
[Peter: change link to Buildroot account]
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Since the migration of the toolchains to the generic package
infrastructure, it is no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
