kumquat-buildroot/utils
Thomas Petazzoni e1550ef755 toolchain/toolchain-buildroot: introduce BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_NONE
In the internal toolchain backend, we have a choice..endchoice block
to allow the user to select the C library, between glibc, uClibc and
musl.

However, there are situations were no C library at all is
supported. In this case, the choice does not appear, and does not
allow to see the Config.in comments that are within the
choice..endchoice block and that may explain why no C library is
available.

For example, on RISC-V 32-bit, the only C library supported is glibc,
and the minimum kernel header version required by glibc on this
architecture is 5.4.0. In a future commit, we are going to add this
dependency on glibc (to fix build issues on configurations that have
headers < 5.4.0). But since glibc is the only supported C library on
RISC-V 32-bit, it means that the choice..endchoice for the C library
contains no entry, preventing from seeing the Config.in comment.

To address this issue, this commit adds a "dummy"
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_NONE option that shows up in the
choice..endchoice only when no C library is available. Thanks to this,
the choice..endchoice is never empty, and the Config.in comments can
be seen.

If the user keeps BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_NONE selected, then the
build will anyway abort early because package/Makefile.in has a check
to verify that a C library is selected, and aborts the build if not.

Some could say that the problem should be resolved by instead
preventing the selection of headers < 5.4.0 on RISC-V 32-bit, but that
is difficult to do as the user can choose a custom header version, or
simply specific that (s)he wants to use the headers of the kernel
being built. In those situations, it's difficult to prevent selecting
headers < 5.4.0.

Prevent random configurations from triggering a build failure in our
autobuilders, by excluding that symbol from accepted configuration.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: update genrandconfig]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2022-10-30 12:42:41 +01:00
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checkpackagelib utils/checkpackagelib/lib_mk.py: check CONF_OPTS 2022-03-07 23:15:46 +01:00
brmake utils/brmake: print the error code of the build 2017-07-05 00:15:05 +02:00
check-package utils/checkpackagelib/lib_sysv: check SysV init scripts 2022-02-06 18:27:00 +01:00
config utils/config: new script to manipulate .config files on the command line 2017-09-27 22:45:35 +02:00
diffconfig utils/diffconfig: use python3 explicitly 2021-12-29 10:07:59 +01:00
docker-run utils/docker-run: hide docker run command 2022-02-16 22:55:15 +01:00
genrandconfig toolchain/toolchain-buildroot: introduce BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_NONE 2022-10-30 12:42:41 +01:00
get-developers utils/get-developers: add -d option for custom DEVELOPERS file 2022-07-23 16:32:58 +02:00
getdeveloperlib.py utils/get-developers: add -d option for custom DEVELOPERS file 2022-07-23 16:32:58 +02:00
readme.txt utils/readme.txt: Fix typo "get-developers" 2022-07-23 18:21:21 +02:00
scancpan package/perl: bump to version 5.32.1 2021-01-25 22:29:32 +01:00
scanpypi utils/scanpypi: restore modules search path in case of error 2022-08-17 21:21:50 +02:00
size-stats-compare utils/size-stats-compare: fix flake8 error 2022-02-01 21:52:35 +01:00
test-pkg utils/test-pkg: show default build dir in help test 2022-09-17 17:57:34 +02:00

This directory contains various useful scripts and tools for working
with Buildroot. You need not add this directory in your PATH to use
any of those tools, but you may do so if you want.

brmake
    a script that can be run instead of make, that prepends the date in
    front of each line, redirects all of the build output to a file
    ("'br.log' in the current directory), and just outputs the Buildroot
    messages (those lines starting with >>>) on stdout.
    Do not run this script for interactive configuration (e.g. menuconfig)
    or on an unconfigured directory. The output is redirected so you will see
    nothing.

check-package
    a script that checks the coding style of a package's Config.in and
    .mk files, and also tests them for various types of typoes.

genrandconfig
    a script that generates a random configuration, used by the autobuilders
    (http://autobuild.buildroot.org). It selects a random toolchain from
    support/config-fragments/autobuild and randomly selects packages to build.

get-developers
    a script to return the list of people interested in a specific part
    of Buildroot, so they can be Cc:ed on a mail. Accepts a patch as
    input, a package name or and architecture name.

scancpan
    a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a CPAN module
    description.

scanpypi
    a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a PyPI package
    description.

size-stats-compare
    a script to compare the rootfs size between two different Buildroot
    configurations. This can be used to identify the size impact of
    a specific option, of a set of specific options, or of an update
    to a newer Buildroot version...

test-pkg
    a script that tests a specific package against a set of various
    toolchains, with the goal to detect toolchain-related dependencies
    (wchar, threads...)