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Yann E. MORIN
b79fb3c224 doc/manual: rsync is not optional
rsync is used in the infrastructure, mostly for the per-package infra,
and for the override-srcdir mechanism, but also to build the manual.
As such, it is not optional but mandatory, and already listed so.

Drop the reference to rsync from the list of optional packages.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2023-12-11 09:21:52 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
bfafe9b3e9 docs/manual: remove references to PKG_PYTHON_*_OPTS
These variables were removed. In addition, the text describing them
wasn't terribly useful. Just remove the sentences describing them.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-11-25 22:03:15 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
4984d0f230 utils/add-custom-hashes: add script to manage global patch dir hashes
Add a script to manage the .hash files in the BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR for
packages using custom versions.

To use it, run in a configured Buildroot directory, E.G.

  make foo_defconfig; ./utils/add-custom-hashes

We support multiple patch directories in BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR.  If multiple
directories are specified then use the last one as that is likely to be the
most specific one.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
[Peter: silence command -v invocation]
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2023-11-12 11:59:27 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
5d36710e36 package/pkg-download: lookup hash files in global-patch-dir
Currently, we expect and only use hash files that lie within the package
directory, alongside the .mk file. Those hash files are thus bundled
with Buildroot.

This implies that only what's known to Buildroot can ever get into those
hash files. For packages where the version is fixed (or a static
choice), then we can carry hashes for those known versions.

However, we do have a few packages for which the version is a free-form
entry, where the user can provide a custom location and/or version.  like
a custom VCS tree and revision, or a custom tarball URL. This means that
Buildroot has no way to be able to cary hashes for such custom versions.

This means that there is no integrity check that what was downloaded is
what was expected. For a sha1 in a git tree, this is a minor issue,
because the sha1 by itself is already a hash of the expected content.
But for custom tarballs URLs, or for a tag in a VCS, there is indeed no
integrity check.

Buildroot can't provide such hashes, but interested users may want to
provide those, and currently there is no (easy) way to do so.

We leverage the existing global-patch-dir mechanism to look for extra
hash files. We use the same heuristic that is used for bundled hash
files, and for each global patch directory <dir>, we use the first file
to exist among:
 1. look into <dir>/<package>/<version>/<package>.hash
 2. look into <dir>/<package>/<package>.hash

Reported-by: "Martin Zeiser (mzeiser)" <mzeiser@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2023-11-07 11:48:46 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
6898781f03 docs/manual: svn downloads can be hash-checked
Since commit 89f5e98932 (support/download/svn: generate reproducible
svn archives), we've been able to generate reproducible archives, and
thus we have been able to verify the hashes for those archives.

However, the manual was not changed, and still falsely hinted that this
was not the cae.

Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2023-11-05 22:48:22 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
f685549b19 docs/manual: fix typo
Reported-by: Thomas Devoogdt <thomas@devoogdt.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-10-21 23:30:27 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
6480774c43 package/pkg-generic: drop support for arch-specific patches
The last architecture-specific patch we had was removed 2015-02-14 with
commit 9863553fe8 (packages: all salute the passing of avr32), where
we eventually got rid of the avr32-specific patch for fbv.

Since then, we've only had common patches (that apply systematically),
or conditional patches, that are applied in an ad-hoc manner with
post-patch hooks. Currently, we even only have one such patch (for
Linux).

Since we do not advertise that possibility in the manual, and since we
do not want to have such patches, drop the support for it.

This has the potential for breaking existing br2-external trees, but
there is a workaround for those: they can provide a pre-patch ook that
copies the necessary per-arch patches if needed. We document this in the
manual.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
2023-10-15 22:24:51 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
f10f47ff28 docs/manual: add a FAQ entry about Y2038 support
This was reviewed in person by Arnout.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2023-10-01 21:14:07 +02:00
Francois Perrad
32cec3be97 docs/manual: rename *.txt as *.adoc
by using this standard extension `adoc`,
these files are rendered on gitlab & github

Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2023-09-30 10:25:22 +02:00
Giulio Benetti
de349df08c docs/manual: add section to explain how to give credits to a sponsor
Sometimes it happens that a Company or a Physical Person sponsors the
creation and/or the upstreaming process of a patch, but at the moment
there is no way to give credits to it. In Linux they prepend '+sponsor'
to the e-mail of the contributor in both authorship and commit log tag as
discussed here[0]. So let's describe in the manual how to do that as a
standard.

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20230817220957.41582-1-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com/

Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
  - reword to reference sub-addressing and the RFC
  - move to the "submitting patches" section, that already deals with
    SoB tags
  - differentiate between Your/Their names
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-09-21 23:57:26 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
96130dc204 docs/manual: fix formatting for LIBFOO_SVN_EXTERNAL
Commit 7dd27cbe5b (support/download: add support to exclude svn
externals) introduced an improperly formatted list item. That was
carried over with bf2d7f8f53 (package/pkg-generic: don't download svn
externals by default).

Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-09-17 22:59:16 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
bf2d7f8f53 package/pkg-generic: don't download svn externals by default
Commit 7dd27cbe5b (support/download: add support to exclude svn
externals) departed from the usual opt-in scheme, like is done for
git submodule or large files, in an attempt to keep the previous
behaviour unchanged, that is to download externals by default.

As an afterthought, we've concluded that the chances for svn-hosted
packages with externals that are indeed required to do the build,
are relatively slim. For those cases, it even makes sense to explicitly
requested the use of the externals.

So, we change the default to not download svn externals.

Since the generated archives may change, we bump the version suffix.
This will allow users to more easily catch the situation and decide if
they really need the externals or not.

We have a single in-tree package that uses svn, and it does not use
externals, so the generated archive does not change, and we just need
to update the archive filename in the hash file.

Finally, we add a new section to the manual, in the chapter about
migrating Buildroot to a newer version.

Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-08-20 16:30:50 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
7dd27cbe5b support/download: add support to exclude svn externals
Like git which can have submodules, subversion can have externals. The
default behaviour for subversion is to retrieve all the externals,
unless told otherwise.

For some repositories, the externals may be huge (e.g. a dataset or some
assets) and may not be required for building the package. In such a
case, retrieving the externals is both a waste of network bandwitdh and
time, and a waste of disk storage.

Like for git submodules and git lfs, add an option that packages can set
to specify whether they want externals or not.

Since we've so far been retrieving externals, we keep that the default,
and packages can opt-out (rather than the opt-in for git submodules or
git lfs).

We must only set it when the package is actually hosted on svn, to avoid
passing -r when the package is not hosted by svn; otherwise, -r would
also be passed e.g. to a git-hosted package, triggering the download of
git submodules even when they are not requested. We need to do so,
because we have a default value, which we usually do not have in other
download options.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2023-08-06 16:35:52 +02:00
Thomas Devoogdt
4cf79d9b71 pkg-cmake: add option to select the Ninja generator
Cmake supports multiple generators. For now, Buildroot only uses the
venerable "GNU Makefile" generator, which generates Makefiles as the
build backend.

Cmake also has support for Ninja as a build backend, and provides the
corresponding generator. Ninja is a small build system with a focus on
speed. It is mainly used with the meson build system, but also cmake has
very good support for it.

Packages that are selecting Ninja (or over time another generator),
should also use the _BUILD_{ENV,OPTS} variables instead of the _MAKE
variables.

No _INSTALL{,_STAGING,_TARGET}_OPTS used so far, so reuse as cmake install opts:

    $ grep '_INSTALL_OPTS' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')
    $ grep '_INSTALL_STAGING_OPTS' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')
    $ grep '_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')

The _MAKE_{ENV,OPTS} are copied to _BUILD_{ENV,OPTS}, involved packages:

    $ grep '_MAKE_ENV =' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')

    package/netopeer2/netopeer2.mk:NETOPEER2_MAKE_ENV = \
    package/racehound/racehound.mk:RACEHOUND_MAKE_ENV = $(LINUX_MAKE_FLAGS)

    (qt6, webkitgtk, and wpewebkit also match, but already use -Gninja)

    $ grep '_MAKE_OPTS =' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')

    package/mariadb/mariadb.mk:HOST_MARIADB_MAKE_OPTS = import_executables
    package/zeek/zeek.mk:HOST_ZEEK_MAKE_OPTS = binpac bifcl

Only "musepack" seems to overwrite MAKE to enforce -j1, so replace it:

    $ grep '_MAKE =' $(git grep -l -E '\$\(eval \$\((host-)?cmake-package))')

    package/musepack/musepack.mk:MUSEPACK_MAKE = $(MAKE1)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Devoogdt <thomas.devoogdt@barco.com>
Reviewed-by: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
  - switch to FOO_CMAKE_BACKEND = (make|ninja)
  - use firstword of $(MAKE), not $(BR2_MAKE)
  - explain why we use firstword of $(MAKE)
  - update manual with the three new variables
  - yweak commit log
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-08-06 15:38:00 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
4468f82885 doc/manual: fix formatting slightly
Signed-off-by: Thierry GUIBERT <thierry.guibert@croix-rouge.fr>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: split off the previous patch by Thierry]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-04-16 14:33:42 +02:00
Thierry GUIBERT
d9228faa4d doc/manual: add documentation about docker registry on gitlab.com
Add a paragraph and an example about using the Buildroot image registry
hosted on gtilab.com, for people who want to build their own image based
on the offical one.

Signed-off-by: Thierry GUIBERT <thierry.guibert@croix-rouge.fr>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-04-16 14:32:29 +02:00
Vincent Fazio
5b00b40a05 docs/manual: rewrite section for upstream documentation
Previously, the documentation only requested links to upstream commits
when backporting patches.

Based on a mailing list discussion [0], patches should, when possible
and when approriate, provide a link as evidence that the patch has been
submitted upstream.

The motivation is that hopefully the patch gets applied to upstream at
some point reducing the long term maintenance burden within Buildroot.
This also makes future patch review on subsequent package version bumps
more streamlined.

For patches that are unique to BR and do not apply to the upstream
repository, patches should have a comment explaining why they do not
apply upstream.

[0] https://lists.buildroot.org/pipermail/buildroot/2023-March/666000.html

Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-04-15 19:36:46 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
6a6a11f64b package/doc-asciidoc: allow docs to request a specific TOC depth
For some documents, we may want a terse or deeper TOC depth. For
example, short documents may want just the level-0 in the TOC, while
longer documents may want depth 1 or 2, or even deeper; also, some
documents may not use the document-title levels [0], only section
levels [1], and so may want to increase the TOC depth.

Additionally, allow per-format depth. For example, split-html has a
single page dedicated to the TOC, so there we may want a deeper TOC,
while on the html output, where the TOC is on the same page as the
whole document, a shorter TOC is preferred.

[0] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/#document-header
[1] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/#section-titles

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
2023-04-10 21:49:22 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
9a3d4e3818 docs/manual: ditch redundant -f 'rm' flag
The value of the RM variable in make is 'rm -f' [0], thus the additional
-f is redundant. Avoid it on the docs to avoid developers taking it as a
good example to follow.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#index-RM

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-03-28 21:36:07 +02:00
Vincent Fazio
2bc95879f7 manual: drop LIBFOO_GETTEXTIZE, add LIBFOO_AUTOPOINT
Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
2023-03-25 21:56:19 +01:00
Vincent Fazio
067a69412a manual: remove LIBFOO_GETTEXTIZE_OPTS
Signed-off-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
2023-03-25 21:22:10 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
c77e31e0b3 docs/manual: add 'menuconfig' to out-of-tree examples
If the examples given for launching an out-of-tree build are executed
as-is, this will result in the error message

    Please configure Buildroot first (e.g. "make menuconfig")

Even if "make menuconfig" was run before, it's still not going to work
because the out-of-tree build doesn't use the in-tree .config.

Therefore, the example really should start with some config option.
Since "make menuconfig" is used in most other examples of creating a
config, use that here as well. Extend both examples with "menuconfig".

Reported-by: AndreiCherniaev <dungeonlords789@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
2023-02-15 22:28:58 +01:00
Ricardo Martincoski
efccb2a7dd docs/manual: check-package before submitting patch
Add 'utils/docker-run make check-package' to the default workflow of
submitting patches, just after the rebase and before using format-patch.

Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2023-02-06 18:54:18 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
f1d7155952 Cleanup/simplify copyright info
Historically we have been (more-or-less consistently, sometimes forgetting
some files) updating the end year of the copyright statements at the
beginning of a new year.

We're naturally not alone in that.  Recently this was discussed in curl, and
it turns out that copyright years are not really required:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/

So drop the years and simplify the copyright statements.  While we're at it,
also ensure the same syntax (capital C, email address) is used everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2023-01-14 21:16:07 +01:00
Zikui Zhao
a34dcba9eb docs/manual: fixed some spelling mistakes
Fixed some spelling mistakes of countable nouns.

Signed-off-by: Zikui Zhao <zhaozikui@eswincomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Woodrow Douglass <wdouglass@carnegierobotics.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-12-02 20:41:13 +01:00
Julien Olivain
5ac1b1866d docs/manual: patch subjects shall not be numbered
The script "utils/check-package" checks that patch email prefix are
not be numbered. See:
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/utils/checkpackagelib/lib_patch.py?h=2022.08-rc1#n42

The error message recommends to generate patches to be included in
Buildroot with the command 'git format-patch -N'.

The patch policy section in the Buildroot manual does mention that.

This commit adds a note about that requirement.

Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-08-28 11:51:23 +02:00
Julien Olivain
7652817c93 docs/manual/prerequisite.txt: add findutils in dependencies
The "find" and "xargs" commands, from the "findutils" package are used
during the build process. See for example [1].

Even if it's a quite common package which is almost sure to be present
on the host, it should be listed here. When writing new recipes, hooks
and scripts, it is generally safe and portable to restrict to the
host dependencies listed in those prerequisites.

This commit just add the missing "findutils" package in this list.

[1] https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/Makefile?h=2022.05.1#n737

Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-08-15 22:21:33 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
ae6e144405 docs/manual/ccache-support.txt: document the new BR2_USE_CCACHE variable
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-30 13:45:16 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
a2689d901b docs/manual/ccache-support.txt: expand explanation about ccache cache location
The manual explanation seemed to imply that the cache is always in
~/.buildroot-ccache/, but it's just the default value. Clarify this
point.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-30 12:34:48 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
c857b8ff0e Makefile, docs/manual, support, toolchain: remove Eclipse integration
Back many years ago, we developed an Eclipse plugin that simplified
the usage of Buildroot toolchains. Enabling the BR2_ECLIPSE_REGISTER=y
was registering the Buildroot toolchain into a special file in your
HOME folder that the Eclipse plugin would recognize to allow to
directly use the Buildroot cross-compiler.

This Eclipse plugin has not been maintained for years. The last commit
in the repository dates back from September 2017. Since then Eclipse
has moved on, and the plugin is no longer compatible with current
versions of Eclipse.

Also, Eclipse is probably no longer that widely used in the embedded
Linux space, as other more modern IDEs have become more popular.

All in all, it's time to say good bye to this Eclipse integration.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-30 12:32:41 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
32b341fa34 docs/manual: add integration section for systemd with dbus
Add a section to the "Integration topics" chapter about how we integrate
systemd. Add a first subsection about how dbus and dbus-broker work with
systemd.

This is just the start of the integration information about systemd.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-29 22:45:11 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
15c972f32a docs/manual: introduce "Integration topics" chapter
We want to add more information in the manual about how a system created
with buildroot works overall. We currently already have a chapter about
SELinux, but we want to add more information like that, e.g. details
about how systemd in Buildroot works.

Create a new chapter "Integration topics" with an introductory blurb,
and move the SELinux topic under it (as a section rather than a
chapter).

"Integration topics" is not the best title, but we couldn't find
anything better.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: remove selinux from main manual.txt]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-29 22:44:10 +02:00
José Luis Salvador Rufo
f3d5916a9f docs/manual/prerequisite.txt: add diffutils
The command `cmp` is used by `package/pkg-generic.mk` at commit
8623cc5deb. This command is provided by `diffutils`, so it should be
installed on the host system.

Signed-off-by: José Luis Salvador Rufo <salvador.joseluis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-07-26 23:57:16 +02:00
Fabrice Fontaine
002f0e927d docs/manual: fix patchwork URL
http://patchwork.buildroot.org is redirecting to
https://bugs.busybox.net so replace it by
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/list/ as already done in
docs/website/contribute.html

Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-07-23 18:57:22 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
47f359a615 utils/get-developers: implement a -v action for DEVELOPERS file validation
Commit "45aabcddc5 utils/get-developers: really make it callable from
elsewhere than the toplevel directory" had a unforeseen side-effect:
the fact that check-developers with no arguments used to validate the
syntax of the DEVELOPERS no longer works. Indeed, the
parse_developers() call was moved *after* the check that verifies if
at least one action is passed. Due to this, the check-DEVELOPERS
verification in Gitlab CI, which invokes get-developers without
argument to validate the DEVELOPERS file... no longer does anything
useful.

In order to fix this, we introduce an explicit action in
get-developers to request the validation of the DEVELOPERS file. The
implementation is trivial, as the validation is already done by
calling parse_developers(), but at least now we have an action that
does "nothing", except execute until the validation is done.

This is also much more explicit than "invoke get-developers without
arguments to just do validation".

The initial investigation of the issue was done by Ricardo Martincoski
<ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com> and reported at
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20220528014832.289907-1-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com/,
but we have chosen to introduce a separate -v option rather than
making the validation part of the existing -c action, which serves a
different purpose.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-07-23 16:32:58 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
4c6e7a134f docs/manual: update documentation about partition-type-uuid convention in genimage.cfg
Whenever possible, we want to use the "shortcuts" provided by genimage
for the partition-type-uuid values:

 - U for the EFI System Partition
 - F for FAT32 partitions
 - L for root filesystem partitions and other Linux filesystems

In follow-up commits, we will convert existing genimage.cfg to this
convention, except for the root filesystem, if the existing
genimage.cfg specifies a partition-type-uuid that doesn't match the
one that "L" would imply. In this case, we will keep things as-is to
not break existing setups. However, for all future genimage.cfg files,
we recommend to use "L" for the root filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-07-23 15:36:21 +02:00
Nicolas POIROT
5c5f30cbc7 docs/manual: fix configurations listing command
Signed-off-by: Nicolas POIROT <ni.poirot@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-06-22 22:09:26 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
793ee1011e Remove support for the NDS32 architecture
The support for this architecture has been removed from the upstream
Linux kernel, as of commit:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aec499c75cf8e0b599be4d559e6922b613085f8f

Which states:

  The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom
  32-bit RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added
  to the kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors
  were already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
  employees.

  As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
  and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
  provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
  support any more.

There has also been little to no maintenance done in Buildroot for
this architecture in recent times, so let's follow the Linux kernel
community decision and drop support for this CPU architecture.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Chien Peter Lin <peterlin@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-06-19 18:30:45 +02:00
Quentin Schulz
dd66a2f0b1 manual: add _TARGET_FINALIZE_HOOKS in the list of hooks
While reading the docs to find hooks, I completely missed the
LIBFOO_TARGET_FINALIZE_HOOKS one which was actually matching my
use-case.

Though it is documented in a subsection a few lines below, let's also
have it in the list of supported hooks so it's not hidden away.

Cc: Quentin Schulz <foss+buildroot@0leil.net>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-06-04 11:30:42 +02:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
8b51205638 docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt: add caveat for upgrading
With the change of the range of UIDs that is generated from the
automatic ID (-1), it became apparent that there is a potential problem
with these automatic IDs when upgrading: they may have changed, which
means that persistent files that exist outside of the rootfs suddenly
have a different owner.

Add a caveat section to the manual, as well as an explanation of how to
work around the problem.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: slight rewording]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-05-28 23:43:15 +02:00
James Hilliard
d4723bb9bd docs/manual: document flit/pep517 python package infrastructure
Note that the flit-bootstrap SETUP_TYPE is deliberately not
documented as it is used only for bootstrapping the host pep517
toolchain and should not be used anywhere else.

Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-05-04 21:47:37 +02:00
Yannick Brosseau
db2b8a1ce2 docs/manual: Remove link to emdebian and replace with debian port page
In the list of full distribution, the FAQ contains a link to Emdebian.
This project stopped receiving updates in 2014 and the main web page does not exist anymore.
This replace the entry with a link to the Debian ports page.

Signed-off-by: Yannick Brosseau <yannick.brosseau@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-03-15 22:28:01 +01:00
Giulio Benetti
1e1976a25d manual: board support: add instructions to test defconfig in the official docker
Sometimes new boards have not been tested with official docker so let's add
instructions to do it with utils/docker-run.

Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-03-07 22:48:02 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
6b59ed35a2 package/pkg-cargo: allow building in a sub-directory
Some packages have their rust sources as a sub-directory, rather
than at the root of the source tree.

Do like we do for autotools-package, and use the package's _SRCDIR
rather than the top-level directory $(@D).

Additionally, in such a situation, it is more than probable that
the Cargo.toml is also present in that sub-directory, so use that
when vendoring the package.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-03-07 22:04:54 +01:00
Simon Doppler
ca9e55ad11 docs/manual: Document Kconfig requirements for uboot
When using uboot's legacy build system, the 'make uboot-menuconfig'
and 'make uboot-savedefconfig' targets are not available as they
are created by 'kconfig-package'.

Signed-off-by: Simon Doppler <dopsi@dopsi.ch>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-03-07 21:36:03 +01:00
Théo Lebrun
efcb7eeabc docs: fix links to AsciiDoc
Links were aimed at the methods.co.nz domain, which is now returning
404s. The current situation of AsciiDoc is unclear to me: the Fedora
package points to this website, they own asciidoc.org, Wikipedia points
to this project as well but their Git repo's README includes the
following paragraph:

> AsciiDoc.py is a legacy processor for this syntax, handling an older
> rendition of AsciiDoc. As such, this will not properly handle the
> current AsciiDoc specification. It is suggested that unless you
> specifically require the AsciiDoc.py toolchain, you should find a
> processor that handles the modern AsciiDoc syntax.

https://github.com/asciidoc-py/asciidoc-py/blob/10.1.3/README.md

"AsciiDoc specification" pointing towards:
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/asciidoc.asciidoc-lang

Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-03-07 20:26:24 +01:00
Fabrice Fontaine
3d7f852ac5 docs/manual: remove override in conditional
Remove override of FOO_{CONF_OPTS,DEPENDENCIES} in conditional

Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-03-05 17:27:04 +01:00
Giulio Benetti
46beca0656 docs/manual: fix "+size = +" latex formatting
Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-02-13 16:21:03 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
4f59ababc0 package/doc-asciidoc: fix build for out-of-tree documents
The doc-asciidoc infra allows document to define sources and resources,
and those can only be local (there is no download support for documents).
The currently documented way to specify those is to use the $(pkgdir)
macro to point to the document sources and resources when they are along
the .mk.

However, this works only for sources and not for resources.

Indeed, sources are used to generate Makefile dependency rules, so
$(pkgdir) is expanded and evaluated during the call to $(doc-asciidoc),
while resources are expanded and evaluated when the rules are executed,
which always happen after all the parsing has be done, at which point
$(pkgdir) expands to the last Makefile that was parsed, which is always
Buildroot's own manual.

This went unnoticed so far because Buildroot's manual is 1) the last to
be parsed, and 2) not using $(pkgdir) anyway.

Additionally, $(pkgdir) is mostly an internal macro, that is, as this
change demonstrates, difficult to use, and thus should not be used, in
packages or in documents.

We fix that by introducing $(FOO_DOCDIR), similar to $(FOO_PKGDIR),
which points to the document directory. We choose not to name the
variable FOO_PKGDIR, because it semantically is not a package.

As a consequence, the last argument to the doc-asciidoc macro is now
superfluous, so it is removed, which causes a little bit of churn in
the main macro. As a further consequence, the third argument in the
inner macro is no longer needed either, so it too is removed, which
causes a bit more churn yet in the inner macro.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin@orange.com>
Cc: Frederic GARDES <frederic.gardes@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2022-02-13 12:24:02 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
2615732124 docs/manual/adding-packages-python.txt: drop <pkg>_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON
Now that host-python2 is gone and the corresponding logic in pkg-python.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2022-02-13 12:11:50 +01:00