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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Some software decides based on uid/gid whether a user is a system or
normal (human) user, with different behaviour for those flavors (example
journald [2]).
So adding logic to create system-users is necessary, we take the now
common ranges from [1].
This extends the mkusers script to allow -2 for uid/gid, this argument
will take an identifier from the user range. All identifiers used up to
now should have been from the system range, so -1 is now interpreted as
a system user/group.
Note that after this commit, all the UIDs and GIDs that are created
automatically (with -1) will change. That means if there is peristent
data on an existing system that was created by such an automatic user,
it will suddenly belong to a different user. However, this could already
happen before: if a USERS line is added to a package, then other UIDs
may change as well.
Add system/user ranges as variables, and the argument for user/system
uid variable as well. Thus some magic constants could be removed, some
further occurences of -1 were replaced with equivalent logic. For
consistency, the existing MIN/MAX_UID/GID variables are renamed to
FIRST/LAST_USER_UID/GID.
Update the documentation with the new automatic ranges.
[1] - https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS/
[2] - https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journald.conf.html
Signed-off-by: Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com>
[Arnout: use -1 for system users; refactor the changes a bit]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
From [1]:
"Even though the ordering has absolutely no consequences in Kconfig, it
is not logical (when reading). It is more logical and far easier to
understand when depends come first, followed by the selects."
Also, the Config.in example in the manual suggests to use this coding
style [2]."
Use the correct coding style in the chapter "Choosing depends on or select"
in the manual.
[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-October/142955.html
[2] https://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html#_coding_style
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Commit 1ba85b7f87 (support/download: add explicit no-hash support)
introduced the 'none' hash type, in an attempt to make hash files
mandatory, but not failing on archives localy generated, like those
for git or svn repositories, especially for those packages where a
version choice was present, which would allow for either remote
archives for which we'd have a hash or VCS trees for which we could
not have a hash for the localy generated archive.
Indeed, back in the time, we did not have a mean to generate
reproducible archives, so having a hash file without a hash for
thosel ocally generated archives would trigger an error in the
hash-checking machinery.
But now, low-and-behold, we do know how to generate those archives,
and we have a mechanism to explicitly exclude some archives from being
hash-checked (e.g. when the version string itself can be user-provided).
As such, the 'none' hash type no longer has any raison d'être, we do not
use it in-tree, and its use in a br2-external tree is most probably
inexistent (as is the use of hash files alotgether most probably).
So we simply drop the support for that.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
[Thomas: drop support in checkpackagelib, as reported by Ricardo.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
