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The new skeleton of the manual as it has been thought:
1. About Buildroot:
Presentation of Buildroot
2. Starting up:
Everything to quickly and easily start working with Buildroot
3. Working with Buildroot
Basics to make your work fitting your needs
4. Troubleshooting
5. Going further in Buildroot's innards
Explaination of how buildroot is organised, how it works, etc
6. Developer Guidelines
7. Getting involved
8. Contibuting to Buildroot
9. Legal notice
10. Appendix
It is easy to distinguish two parts in this plan:
- Sections 1 to 4 mainly address people starting with Buildroot
- Sections 5 to 10 are more focused on how to develop Buildroot itself
Most of the existing sections have just been moved in the hierarchy,
few were split and dispatch in, what i think was the relevant section,
and numerous others have been created.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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// -*- mode:doc; -*-
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Location of downloaded packages
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It might be useful to know that the various tarballs that are
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downloaded by the Makefiles are all stored in the +DL_DIR+ which by
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default is the +dl+ directory. It's useful, for example, if you want
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to keep a complete version of Buildroot which is known to be working
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with the associated tarballs. This will allow you to regenerate the
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toolchain and the target filesystem with exactly the same versions.
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If you maintain several Buildroot trees, it might be better to have a
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shared download location. This can be accessed by creating a symbolic
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link from the +dl+ directory to the shared download location:
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$ ln -s <shared download location> dl
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Another way of accessing a shared download location is to create the
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+BUILDROOT_DL_DIR+ environment variable. If this is set, then the
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value of DL_DIR in the project is overridden. The following line
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should be added to +<~/.bashrc>+.
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$ export BUILDROOT_DL_DIR <shared download location>
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