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Thomas Petazzoni 9346b1b979 libtirpc: remove patch numbers from patch titles
The patch numbers in [PATCH x/y] are quite useless within the context
of Buildroot, and generate noise when patches are re-ordered.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-14 22:57:56 +01:00
arch Split target/Config.in.arch into multiple Config.in.* in arch/ 2012-11-04 12:51:38 +01:00
board foundation-v8/readme.txt: remove outdated rpc comment 2012-11-06 08:20:20 +01:00
boot at91bootstrap: fix overlap linker issue 2012-11-08 17:28:25 +01:00
configs calao: use zImage on usb-a9263 and usb-a9g20 lpw 2012-11-07 18:18:11 +01:00
docs adding-package-generic.txt: BR2_SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR is no more 2012-11-07 00:10:43 +01:00
fs iso9660 fs: use cpio initrd instead of ext2 2012-11-14 22:53:25 +01:00
linux linux: bump 3.6.x stable version 2012-11-06 12:11:12 +01:00
package libtirpc: remove patch numbers from patch titles 2012-11-14 22:57:56 +01:00
support pkg-stats: fix the broken "results" link 2012-11-05 09:17:24 +01:00
system system: fixup default device table locations after system/ got added 2012-11-04 13:00:25 +01:00
toolchain kernel-headers: bump 3.{0, 4, 6}.x stable versions 2012-11-06 12:11:08 +01:00
.defconfig buildroot: get rid of s390 support 2009-01-12 14:36:14 +00:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore more patch related files 2010-11-18 12:07:23 +01:00
CHANGES CHANGES: update with recent changes 2012-11-14 22:28:05 +01:00
Config.in Split target/Config.in.arch into multiple Config.in.* in arch/ 2012-11-04 12:51:38 +01:00
COPYING clarify license and fix website license link 2009-05-08 09:29:41 +02:00
Makefile New top-level directory: system 2012-11-04 12:51:08 +01:00

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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