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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* 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>
* 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* Mention that the section on project feature is obsolete since the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.
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.
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.
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/
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>
