buildroot/docs
Simon Dawson 5538e47662 rework patch model
At the Buildroot Developers Meeting (4-5 February 2013, in Brussels) a change
to the patch logic was discussed. See

http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2013

for details. In summary:

* For patches stored in the package directory, if
  package/<pkg>/<version>/ does exist, apply package/<pkg>/<version>/*.patch,
  otherwise, apply package/<pkg>/*.patch
* For patches stored in the global patches directory, if
  $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/<version>/ does exist, apply
  $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/<version>/*.patch, otherwise, apply
  $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/*.patch

This patch adds the new BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR configuration item, and reworks
the generic package infrastructure to implement the new patch logic.

[Peter: fixup doc nits as pointed out by Thomas]
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-03-19 23:10:49 +01:00
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images docs/images: optimize small images to speed up page loading 2010-08-30 12:10:40 +02:00
manual rework patch model 2013-03-19 23:10:49 +01:00
about.html docs: fix /know/known/ typo 2011-02-24 12:53:43 +01:00
copyright.txt Update copyright year 2012-03-01 14:04:54 +01:00
developer.html docs/: announce move to git 2009-05-03 22:11:33 +02:00
docs.html docs: update links to the manual 2012-08-02 10:25:23 +02:00
download.html Update for 2013.02 2013-02-28 22:48:28 +01:00
favicon.ico docs: add favicon / robots.txt 2011-04-04 22:21:47 +02:00
footer.html Update copyright year 2012-03-01 14:04:54 +01:00
git.html docs/git.html: slightly reword for git 2012-04-25 23:07:27 +02:00
header.html docs/header.html: freshmeat got renamed to freecode 2012-05-14 22:15:27 +02:00
index.html docs/: show about.html as index page 2009-03-25 15:54:41 +00:00
lists.html repair ML search knob 2011-12-16 17:22:59 +01:00
news.html Update for 2013.02 2013-02-28 22:48:28 +01:00
README docs: remove outdated files 2011-01-15 13:17:22 +01:00
robots.txt docs: add favicon / robots.txt 2011-04-04 22:21:47 +02:00
stylesheet.css stylesheet.css: cleaned up css code 2010-10-23 14:43:10 +02:00

To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following:

1) run 'make menuconfig'
2) select the packages you wish to compile
3) run 'make'
4) wait while it compiles
5) Use your shiny new root filesystem. Depending on which sort of
    root filesystem you selected, you may want to loop mount it,
    chroot into it, nfs mount it on your target device, burn it
    to flash, or whatever is appropriate for your target system.

You do not need to be root to build or run buildroot.  Have fun!

Offline build:
==============

In order to do an offline-build (not connected to the net), fetch all
selected source by issuing a
$ make source

before you disconnect.
If your build-host is never connected, then you have to copy buildroot
and your toplevel .config to a machine that has an internet-connection
and issue "make source" there, then copy the content of your dl/ dir to
the build-host.

Building out-of-tree:
=====================

Buildroot supports building out of tree with a syntax similar
to the Linux kernel. To use it, add O=<directory> to the
make command line, E.G.:

$ make O=/tmp/build

And all the output files (including .config) will be located under /tmp/build.

More finegrained configuration:
===============================

You can specify a config-file for uClibc:
$ make UCLIBC_CONFIG_FILE=/my/uClibc.config

And you can specify a config-file for busybox:
$ make BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FILE=/my/busybox.config

To use a non-standard host-compiler (if you do not have 'gcc'),
make sure that the compiler is in your PATH and that the library paths are
setup properly, if your compiler is built dynamically:
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3.orig HOSTCXX=gcc-4.3-mine

Depending on your configuration, there are some targets you can use to
use menuconfig of certain packages. This includes:
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3 linux-menuconfig
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3 uclibc-menuconfig
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3 busybox-menuconfig

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