Buildroot documentation section 9.2.1.6 "Additional kernel extensions"
indicates support for kernel extensions defined in external buildroot
trees but unfortunately, there didn't seem to be any support in
br2-external script.
This patch copies 'init' code support to include external kernel
extensions defined in 'linux' dir at the br2-external root directory as
explained in documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas POIROT <ni.poirot@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Some externals may wish to provide custom init systems for tightly
integrated boot. This has been supported through the BR2_INIT_NONE,
however a downside to the BR2_INIT_NONE is it forces the custom init
system to use either skeleton-custom and roll a custom skeleton for
each target, or skeleton-init-none which isn't a complete skeleton.
Allowing br2-external to define custom BR2_INIT_* means they can now
safely 'select' the BR2_PACKAGE_SKELETON_INIT_*, and re-use any of the
skeletons in Buildroot, or one from a br2-external tree.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Today, the BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_CUSTOM is the only way to build a custom
skeleton. But it's limiting as users must provide a pre-built skeleton
for each target. Supporting a br2-external package allows users to build
up a skeleton and customize it with their own KConfig options.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
The error is misleading: it reports that no name was provided,
when in fact the external.desc file is missing.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>p
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
When a br2-external tree has an issue, e.g. a missing file, or does not
have a name, or the name uses invalid chars, we report that condition by
setting the variable BR2_EXTERNAL_ERROR.
That variable is defined in the script support/scripts/br2-external,
which outputs it on stdout, and checked by the Makefile.
Before d027cd75d0, stdout was explicitly redirected to the generated
.mk file, with exec >"${ofile}" as the Makefile and Kconfig
fragments were generated each with their own call to the script, and
the validation phase would emit the BR2_EXTERNAL_ERROR variable in the
Makefile fragment.
But with d027cd75d0, both the Makefile and Kconfig fragments were now
generated with a single call to the script, and as such the semantics of
the scripts changed, and only each of the actual generators, do_mk and
do_kconfig, had their out put redirected. Which left do_validate with
the default stdout. Which would emit BR2_EXTERNAL_ERROR on stdout.
In turn, the stdout of the script would be interpreted by as part of the
Makefile. But this does not end up very well when a br2-external tree
indeed has an error:
- missing a external.desc file:
Makefile:184: *** multiple target patterns. Stop.
- empty external.desc file:
Config.in:22: can't open file "output/.br2-external.in.paths"
So we must redirect the output of the validation step to the
Makefile fragment, so that the error message is correctly caught by the
top-level Makefile.
Note that we don't need to append in do_mk, and we can do an overwrite
redirection: if we go so far as to call do_mk, it means there was no
error, and thus the fragment is empty.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Similar to toolchains and jpeg, we now offer a way for br2-external
trees to provide their openssl implementation, which gets included in
the openssl choice.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Similar to toolchains, we now offer a way for br2-external trees to
provide their libjpeg implementation, which gets included in the jpeg
choice.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Since we have a choice for the pre-configured pre-built toolchains,
there is no possbility for a br2-external to provide its own. The
only solution so far for defconfigs in br2-external trees is to use
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CUSTOM and define all the bits by itself...
This is not so convemient, so offer a way for br2-external trees to
provide such pre-configured toolchains.
To allow for this, we now scan each br2-external tree and look for a
specific file, provides.toolchains.in. We generate a kconfig file that
sources each such file, and that generated file is sourced from within
the toolchain choice, thus making the toolchains from a br2-external
tree possible and available in the same location as the ones known to
Buildroot:
Toolchain --->
Toolchain type (External toolchain) --->
Toolchain --->
(X) Arm ARM 2019.03
( ) Linaro ARM 2018.05
( ) Custom toolchain
*** Toolchains from my-br2-ext-tree: ***
( ) My custom ARM toolchain
*** Toolchains from another-br2-ext-tree: ***
( ) Another custom ARM toolchain
( ) A third custom ARM toolchain
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently, the kconfig part contains two things: the kconfig option
with the paths to br2-external trees, and the kconfig menus for the
br2-external trees.
When we want to include more kconfig files from the br2-external tree
(e.g. to get definitions for pre-built toolchains), we will need to
have the paths defined earlier, so they can be used from the br2-external
tree to include files earlier than the existing menus.
Split the generated kconfig file in two: one to define the paths, which
gets included early in our main Config.in, and one to actually define
the existing menus, which still gets included at the same place they
currently are.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
We currently redirect the output of each helper function. This was nice
as long as we were generating single .mk and .in fragments.
But we are soon to need more .in fragments.
So, do the redirection inside the .in helpers.
We do not (currently) need to generate more than one .mk fragment, but
for consistency, do the redirection in the .mk helper too.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
When we introduced support for multiple br2-external trees, we
introduced two files, one on the Makefile side, needed very early,
and one on the kconfig side, needed later in the configuration
process. We naturally introduced a two-step generation, as it looked
like the simplest and most obvious way.
But now, we are on the verge of generating more files on the kconfig
side, and it does not make sense to add even more steps to generate
them.
And even better yet, we can generate both the Makefile-side and
kconfig-side files at the same time, in fact.
Make it so.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
We do not usually provide help for our internal scripts. Besides, such
help has a tendency to bitrot pretty quickly anyway.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Commit b14b02698 (core/br2-external: restore compatibility with old
distros) switched to using 'eval' to emulate associative arrays, for
those distros too old to have bash-4+.
In so doing, it forgot to declare the new local variables in the
respective helper functions.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Unextected error in the br2-external script are properly caught, but
they are not reported properly, and we end up in either of two
situations:
- the .br2-external.mk file is not generated, in which case make will
try to find a rule to generate it (because the 'include' directive
tries to generate missing files);
- the .br-external.mk file is generated but does not contain the error
variable, and thus the build might not get interrupted.
We fix that by using a trap on the pseudo ERR signal, to emit the error
variable on unexpected errors.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Fixes#9576
When the path to a br2-external tree is relative, make enters an endless
recursive loop (paths elided for brevity):
$ make BR2_EXTERNAL=.. foo_defconfig
make[1]: stat: ../configs/../configs/../configs[...]/toto_defconfig: Filename too long
make[1]: *** No rule to make target '../configs/../configs/../configs[...]/toto_defconfig',
needed by '../configs/../configs/../configs[...]/toto_defconfig'. Stop.
Makefile:79: recipe for target '_all' failed
make: *** [_all] Error 2
It is a bit complex to understand the actual technical reason for this
never-ending expansion; it seems it happens in the code generated by the
percent_defconfig macro. Not sure why, though...
But the root cause is the relative path.
Just use absolute, canonical paths to br2-external trees. Always.
[Peter: add bugzilla reference]
Reported-by: outtierbert@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently, the br2-external script uses bash-4's associative arrays.
However, some oldish enterprise-class distros like RHEL5 still use
bash-3.1 which lacks associative arrays.
We restore compatibility with those oldish distros using 'eval' to
emulate associative arrays, as suggested by Arnout.
Reported-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To be noted: that link will only be valid once we have a released
manual. In the meantime, it's accessible on the nightly manual:
http://nightly.buildroot.org/#br2-external-converting
Reported-by: Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Now that we support multiple br2-external trees, BR2_EXTERNAL is no
longer exported in the environment.
This means that post-build scripts in a br2-external tree can no longer
find their own files (well, they could re-invent the path by stripping
their known-relative path, but that'd be ugly, especially since we can
very well provide it).
Export the path for each br2-external trees as environment variables.
Do so for the description as well, as a courtesy.
Also, re-order variable definitions to be more logical: first, purely
internal variables, then exported variables.
Reported-by: Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Benoît Allard <benoit.allard@greenbone.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Currently, we only support at most one br2-external tree. Being able
to use more than one br2-external tree can be very useful.
A use-case would be for having a br2-external to contain the basic
packages, basic board defconfigs and board files, provided by one team
responsible for the "board-bringup", while other teams consume that
br2-external as a base, and complements it each with their own set of
packages, defconfigs and extra board files.
Another use-case would be for third-parties to provide their own
Buildroot packaging in a br2-external tree, along-side the archives for
their stuff.
Finally, another use-case is to be able to add FLOSS packages in a
br2-external tree, and proprietary packages in another. This allows
to not touch the Buildroot tree at all, and still be able to get in
compliance by providing only that br2-external tree(s) that contains
FLOSS packages, leaving aside the br2-external tree(s) with the
proprietary bits.
What we do is to treat BR2_EXTERNAL as a colon-separated (space-
separated also work, and we use that internally) list of paths, on which
we iterate to construct:
- the list of all br2-external names, BR2_EXTERNAL_NAMES,
- the per-br2-external tree BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME) variables, which
point each to the actual location of the corresponding tree,
- the list of paths to all the external.mk files, BR2_EXTERNAL_MKS,
- the space-separated list of absolute paths to the external trees,
BR2_EXTERNAL_DIRS.
Once we have all those variables, we replace references to BR2_EXTERNAL
with either one of those.
This cascades into how we display the list of defconfigs, so that it is
easy to see what br2-external tree provides what defconfigs. As
suggested by Arnout, tweak the comment from "User-provided configs" to
"External configs", on the assumption that some br2-external trees could
be provided by vendors, so not necessarily user-provided. Ditto the menu
in Kconfig, changed from "User-provided options" to "External options".
Now, when more than one br2-external tree is used, each gets its own
sub-menu in the "User-provided options" menu. The sub-menu is labelled
with that br2-external tree's name and the sub-menu's first item is a
comment with the path to that br2-external tree.
If there's only one br2-external tree, then there is no sub-menu; there
is a single comment that contains the name and path to the br2-external
tree.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This unique NAME is used to construct a per br2-external tree variable,
BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_PATH, which contains the path to the br2-external
tree.
This variable is available both from Kconfig (set in the Kconfig
snippet) and from the .mk files.
Also, display the NAME and its path as a comment in the menuconfig.
This will ultimately allow us to support multiple br2-external trees at
once, with that NAME (and thus BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)) uniquely defining
which br2-external tree is being used.
The obvious outcome is that BR2_EXTERNAL should now no longer be used to
refer to the files in the br2-external tree; that location is now known
from the BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_PATH variable instead. This means we no
longer need to expose, and must stop from from exposing BR2_EXTERNAL as
a Kconfig variable.
Finally, this also fixes a latent bug in the pkg-generic infra, where we
would so far always refer to BR2_EXTERNAL (even if not set) to filter
the names of packages (to decide whether they are a bootloader, a
toolchain or a simple package).
Note: since the variables in the Makefile and in Kconfig are named the
same, the one we computed early on in the Makefile will be overridden by
the one in .config when we have it. Thus, even though they are set to
the same raw value, the one from .config is quoted and, being included
later in the Makefile, will take precedence, so we just re-include the
generated Makefile fragment a third time before includeing the
br2-external's Makefiles. That's unfortunate, but there is no easy way
around that as we do want the two variables to be named the same in
Makefile and Kconfig (and we can't ask the user to un-quote that variable
himself either), hence this little dirty triple-inclusion trick.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
A br2-external tree must provide external.mk and Config.in.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Currently, we treat the case where we have no br2-external tree
(BR2_EXTERNAL is empty) differently from the case where we do have one
(BR2_EXTERNAL is not empty).
There is now no reason to treat those two cases differently:
- the kconfig snippet is always generated appropriately (i.e. it would
include the br2-external tree if set, or include nothing otherwise);
- we no longer have a dummy br-external tree either.
Also, the Makefile code to handle BR2_EXTERNAL is currently quite
readable if at least a little bit tricky.
However, when we're going to add support for using multiple br2-external
trees simultaneously, this code would need to get much, much more complex.
To keep the Makefile (rather) simple, offload all of the handling of
BR2_EXTERNAL to the recently added br2-external helper script.
However, because of Makefiles idiosyncracies, we can't use a rule to
generate that Makefile fragment.
Instead, we use $(shell ...) to call the helper script, and include the
fragment twice: once before the $(shell ...) so we can grab a previously
defined BR2_EXTERNAL value, a second time to use the one passed on the
command line, if any.
Furthermore, we can't error out (e.g. on non-existent br2-external tree)
directly from the fragment or we'd get that error on subsequent calls,
with no chance to override it even from command line.
Instead, we use a variable in which we store the error, set it to empty
before the second inclusion, so that only the one newly generated, if
any, is taken into account.
Since we know the script will always be called from Makefile context
first, we know validation will occur in Makefile context first. So we
can assume that, if there is an error, it will be detected in Makefile
context. Consequently, if the script is called to generate the kconfig
fragment, validation has already occured, and there should be no error.
So we change the error function to generate Makefile code, so that
errors are caught as explained above.
Lastly, when the value of BR2_EXTERNAL changes, we want to 'forget'
about the previous value of the BR2_EXTERNAL_MK variable, especially in
the case where BR2_EXTERNAL is now set to empty, so that we do not try
to include it later. That's why we first generate empty version of
BR2_EXTERNAL_MK, and then assign it the new value, if any.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Now that we generate a kconfig snippet, we can conditionally include the
BR2_EXTERNAL's Config.in only when BR2_EXTERNAL is supplied by the user,
which means our empty/dummy Config.in is no needed.
As for external.mk, we can also include it only when BR2_EXTERNAL is
supplied by the user, which means our empty/dummy external.mk is no
longer needed.
Ditch both of those files, and:
- only generate actual content in the Kconfig snippet when we actually
do have a BR2_EXTERNAL provided by the user (i.e. BR2_EXTERNAL is not
empty);
- add a variable that contains the path to the external.mk provided by
the user, or empty if none, and include the path set in that variable
(make can 'include' nothing without any problem! ;-) )
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Move the inclusion of br2-external's Config.in to the generated kconfig
snippet.
This will ultimately allow us to use more than one br2-external tree.
Offload the "User-provided options" menu to the generated Kconfig
snippet. We can also move the definition of the Kconfig-version of
BR2_EXTERNAL into this snippet.
We introduce an extra check that was not present in the previous code,
to check that we do have permission on that directory. Prevciously, it
was handled as a side effect of not being able to cd into there, but it
is cleaner to check it expressly.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
