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This patch reworks the requirements section of the manual as follows: - some general rewording - move configuration editor dependencies above the download tools, as this is the first thing people come in contact with. - move sentence regarding -dev packages to configuration editor dependencies and restrict to 'libraries'. - clarify the download tools part. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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// -*- mode:doc; -*-
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// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
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[[requirement]]
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== System requirements
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Buildroot is designed to run on Linux systems.
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While Buildroot itself will build most host packages it needs for the
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compilation, certain standard Linux utilities are expected to be
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already installed on the host system. Below you will find an overview of
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the mandatory and optional packages (note that package names may vary
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between distributions).
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[[requirement-mandatory]]
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=== Mandatory packages
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* Build tools:
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** +which+
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** +sed+
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** +make+ (version 3.81 or any later)
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** +binutils+
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** +build-essential+ (only for Debian based systems)
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** +gcc+ (version 2.95 or any later)
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** `g++` (version 2.95 or any later)
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** +bash+
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** +patch+
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** +gzip+
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** +bzip2+
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** +perl+ (version 5.8.7 or any later)
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** +tar+
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** +cpio+
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** +python+ (version 2.6 or 2.7)
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** +unzip+
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** +rsync+
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* Source fetching tools:
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** +wget+
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[[requirement-optional]]
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=== Optional packages
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* Configuration interface dependencies:
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+
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For these libraries, you need to install both runtime and development
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data, which in many distributions are packaged separately. The
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development packages typically have a _-dev_ or _-devel_ suffix.
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+
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** +ncurses5+ to use the 'menuconfig' interface
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** +qt4+ to use the 'xconfig' interface
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** +glib2+, +gtk2+ and +glade2+ to use the 'gconfig' interface
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* Source fetching tools:
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+
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In the official tree, most of the package sources are retrieved using
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+wget+ from _ftp_, _http_ or _https_ locations. A few packages are only
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available through a version control system. Moreover, Buildroot is
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capable of downloading sources via other tools, like +rsync+ or +scp+
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(refer to xref:download-infra[] for more details). If you enable
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packages using any of these methods, you will need to install the
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corresponding tool on the host system:
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+
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** +bazaar+
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** +cvs+
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** +git+
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** +mercurial+
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** +rsync+
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** +scp+
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** +subversion+
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* Java-related packages, if the Java Classpath needs to be built for
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the target system:
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** The +javac+ compiler
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** The +jar+ tool
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* Documentation generation tools:
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** +asciidoc+, version 8.6.3 or higher
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** +w3m+
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** +python+ with the +argparse+ module (automatically present in 2.7+ and 3.2+)
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** +dblatex+ (required for the pdf manual only)
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* Graph generation tools:
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** +graphviz+ to use 'graph-depends' and '<pkg>-graph-depends'
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** +python-matplotlib+ to use 'graph-build'
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