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Thomas Petazzoni
16c1549fd2 documentation: update about new package infrastructures
Document the new generic package infrastructure, and how target/host
packages are handled, both for the generic package infrastructure and
the autotools package infrastructure.

This documentation replaces the documentation that used to be present
at the top of Makefile.autotools.in. Both tutorial and reference
documentation are provided.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2009-12-15 19:57:41 +01:00
grante
0a62bb41ba docs: Clean up punctuation, grammar, usage, and typos.
Closes #795.

Signed-off-by: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-12-12 01:29:23 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
4f399c3fb1 docs/buildroot.html: fix minor typo
STAGING_DIR is output/staging, not build/staging per default.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-11-26 11:08:06 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
796e2b6ccc docs/buildroot.html: document linux26-menuconfig / LINUX26_KCONFIG
This wasn't menitioned in the documentation as noticed by
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-11-22 21:51:46 +01:00
Thomas Petazzoni
5e5f3209f0 documentation: insist more on why output/target/ should not be used
A lot of people complain that the root filesystem generated by
Buildroot doesn't work because it lacks the device files. This is
because they use output/target/ instead of one of the images.

Therefore, insist in the documentation on this point. Even though I'm
unsure if users really read the documentation :-)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2009-10-30 09:06:47 +01:00
Peter Korsgaard
7a83c1458f docs/buildroot.html: remove mention of skel.tar.gz
We haven't used a tarball for the skeleton since we moved to subversion
in 2006.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-10-18 09:29:50 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
524b203588 busybox: invert hide option
Invert the BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_HIDE_OTHERS option to use positive logic,
renaming it to _SHOW_OTHERS.

Positive logic is simpler to understand, and it makes all{,package}config
do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-10-15 10:18:51 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
58fd779a43 buildroot; move defconfigs to configs/ and print in help
As discussed earlier on the mailing list. It simplifies code, gives more
sensible error message on typos and makes the defconfigs easier to find
for users.

Furthermore, update documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-10-04 22:20:28 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
84a8eafd4c documentation: update after major changes
* Remove the huge section describing the design of the removed
   "project" feature

 * Update all references to the output directory hierarchy to match
   the new one

 * Add new sections on how to rebuild single packages and how to
   create board support

 * Other updates, clarifications, reorganizations

 Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2009-09-16 23:01:07 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d9a9501771 documentation: mention the new xconfig interface
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2009-07-27 18:09:45 +02:00
Daniel Mack
53fd73611c docs: describe BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-07-27 14:47:53 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
6b4ae38d12 docs: get rid of svn date keywords
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-05-15 09:30:58 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
e2cac48876 docs/: announce move to git
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-05-03 22:11:33 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
01dce41217 docs/buildroot.html: fix typo 2009-04-29 08:12:22 +00:00
Thomas Petazzoni
c9adae97af New section on external toolchain usage 2009-04-28 21:12:23 +00:00
Thomas Petazzoni
b7b6946b56 Documentation cleanups
* Add the section describing the project feature to the table of
   contents
 * Change the formatting of titles in the section on the project
   feature
 * Mention that the section on project feature is obsolete since the
   feature has now been implemented
 * Remove the duplication about two different sections documenting
   basically the same thing : how to use the Buildroot toolchain.
2009-04-28 20:58:57 +00:00
Thomas Petazzoni
d30b334654 Remove useless <ol>...</ol> tags 2009-03-25 14:41:23 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
0fadec67a8 docs/buildroot.html: remove reference to unused BUILDROOT_USE_XWINDOWS 2009-03-23 21:48:50 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
77754571b2 pkgconfig: add pkgconfig package for target
The host versions shouldn't be visible in Kconfig, so remove the
reference to BR2_PACKAGE_PKGCONFIG everywhere and prefix the host targets
with host-.

At the same time add pkgconfig for the target (E.G. for development) and
let BR2_PACKAGE_PKGCONFIG control that package.

Notice: all defconfigs in the tree have been updated, but make sure to
disable the pkgconfig package (unless you want it) if you use an external
config, otherwise you'll end up with pkgconfig and glib2 in the target.
2009-03-18 19:19:10 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
992b1890a7 docs/buildroot: use DESTDIR / install-strip for target install example 2009-03-02 10:09:44 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
adf922b33f docs/buildroot.html: we DO make releases nowadays 2009-03-02 08:34:28 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
4aefa7fbb1 s/buildroot.uclibc.org/buildroot.net/ 2009-03-02 08:34:20 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
0c54ef9c9a target/linux/Makefile.in.advanced: get rid of BUILDROOT_USE_XWINDOWS
As discussed on the list.
2009-01-30 14:41:04 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
0dbf9dd7ab Create a common BR2_COPYTO to prepare to replace
all the different COPYTOs spread out all over
Buildroot.
Generate COPY_FILE subroutine which can be used
to copy a file.

$(COPY_FILE , file, directory, filename)
This will copy to binary dir and to the selected
copy dir if set in new config (intended to replace
all old COPYTO configs)

This is overridden by BUILDROOT_COPYTO,
if set into the environment.
2009-01-26 23:52:31 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
e8b1e036f9 Update documentation with BUILDROOT_USE_XWINDOWS, & linux cleanup 2009-01-26 20:26:16 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
d58636d765 buildroot: add BR2_BACKUP_SITE and DOWNLOAD helper
This is the long requested backup mirror support. So far only enabled
for Makefile.autotools.in, but there's no reason why we cannot use
DOWNLOAD everywhere.

Notice, I'm still syncing http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/sources/
2009-01-16 10:27:48 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
ce85931015 docs/buildroot.html: misc small fixes and strip trailing spaces 2008-12-16 09:00:11 +00:00
Thomas Petazzoni
f3e8be761a Documentation fixes and updates
The biggest update is to document the Makefile.autotools.in way of
writing .mk files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2008-12-15 22:35:09 +00:00
Thomas Petazzoni
6844445ef7 Mention another important benefit of Buildroot.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2008-12-15 22:14:02 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
0db545ab18 docs/: get rid of unneeded $(strip ..) 2008-12-08 08:15:46 +00:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
184891efc5 - extend documentation to mention adding package/foo/Config.in to package/Config.in 2008-10-14 16:20:55 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
0732b8cc84 buildroot: support out-of-tree builds
Add support and documentation for out-of-tree builds with syntax
like the Linux kernel (make O=<dir>).
2008-08-31 20:23:47 +00:00
Peter Korsgaard
4683420c4c Kconfig: remove 'default n'
'default n' is the default, so there's no need to say it explicitly.
2008-07-17 20:01:44 +00:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
53cc639eef - trivial style fixes.
TODO: document HAVE_MANPAGES and HAVE_INFOPAGES (and adjust line-numbers in the text accordingly)
2007-09-19 09:08:10 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
7521f37372 Add hooks for creating your own board support package 2007-09-12 04:34:16 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
ecf8811027 Fix spelling error in docs 2007-08-24 05:28:18 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
3c567e6466 Add support for BUILDROOT_DL_DIR environment variable, overriding DL_DIR 2007-08-19 23:32:33 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
f7b89d1dfc Add further documentation for BSP patch 2007-08-16 21:54:48 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
ebcd8a929e Cleanup of docs 2007-08-12 23:26:28 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
7d8c2838ef Update documentation with advice on completion 2007-08-11 21:58:53 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
7c61ca6f0c Fix Document style 2007-07-12 17:04:05 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
d65d81e06d Fix Document style 2007-07-12 16:53:13 +00:00
Ulf Samuelsson
02616c53c3 Update Documentation for BSP patch 2007-07-12 14:43:44 +00:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
92bfa8fda9 - update docs to mention the new sysroot support. 2007-06-21 16:58:36 +00:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
0c47ba4dd7 - point to busybox-<version>.config 2007-03-13 12:59:45 +00:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
02f24e45ae - remove validator, all is fine now. 2007-01-21 21:49:55 +00:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
28ef3a1847 - duh. add missing listentry stop markers 2007-01-19 19:28:39 +00:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
74dc2f842c - explicitely mention -clean and -dirclean targets so it is easier to search for them 2007-01-19 19:20:07 +00:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
b796ecae8f - add some more documentation 2007-01-19 13:32:21 +00:00
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
8146fc687d - some minor corrections 2007-01-19 12:35:26 +00:00