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* manual: high-level restructuringThomas De Schampheleire2014-08-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The structure of the buildroot manual is not always clear. There is a large number of chapters, and some chapters seem to overlap. The distinction between general usage and developer information is not always clear. This patch restructures the manual into four large parts: - getting started - user guide - developer guide - appendix Except for the names of these parts, the section names are not yet changed. Content-wise there are no changes yet either. This will be handled in subsequent patches. In order to achieve the introduction of a new level 'parts' above 'chapters', the section indicators (=, ==, ===, ...) of several sections have to be moved one level down. Additionally, the leveloffset indication to asciidoc has to be removed. Finally, to maintain more or less the same level of detail in the table of contents, the toc.section.depth attribute is reduced as well. Note that for some sections, less detail is visible now. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* toolchain: linker options with a $ sign are not supportedYann E. MORIN2014-07-311-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As reported in bug #7172 [0], setting BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS to a value containing a $ sign can lead to unexpected results. This is because it is very hard to know when the $ sign gets evaluated: - in the Buildroot-level make - in the shell called by the Buildroot-level make - in the package's own build-system, either at configure time, in the Makefile, in a shell in the Makefile... So, it is very difficult to know how much escaping that would need. A proposal is to use a shell variable to pass such values unmolested. But it is not that simple either, since it still contains a $ sign, and there is not much certainty as to when it would be evaluated. Instead, just document this limitation, both in the help text for BR2_TARGET_LDFLAGS, and in the known-issues section in the manual. Does not really fix #7172, but at least the limitation is documented. [0] https://bugs.buildroot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7172 Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Mike Zick <minimod@morethan.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* manual: use one-line titles instead of two-line titles (trivial)Thomas De Schampheleire2014-05-021-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Asciidoc supports two syntaxes for section titles: two-line titles (title plus underline consisting of a particular symbol), and one-line titles (title prefixed with a specific number of = signs). The two-line title underlines are: Level 0 (top level): ====================== Level 1: ---------------------- Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ and the one-line title prefixes: = Document Title (level 0) = == Section title (level 1) == === Section title (level 2) === ==== Section title (level 3) ==== ===== Section title (level 4) ===== The buildroot manual is currenly using the two-line titles, but this has multiple disadvantages: - asciidoc also uses some of the underline symbols for other purposes (like preformatted code, example blocks, ...), which makes it difficult to do mass replacements, such as a planned follow-up patch that needs to move all sections one level down. - it is difficult to remember which level a given underline symbol (=-~^+) corresponds to, while counting = signs is easy. This patch changes all two-level titles to one-level titles in the manual. The bulk of the change was done with the following Python script, except for the level 1 titles (-----) as these underlines are also used for literal code blocks. This patch only changes the titles, no other changes. In adding-packages-directory.txt, I did add missing newlines between some titles and their content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import mmap import re for input in sys.argv[1:]: f = open(input, 'r+') f.flush() s = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0) # Level 0 (top level): ====================== = # Level 1: ---------------------- == # Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ === # Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ==== # Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ ===== def replace_title(s, symbol, replacement): pattern = re.compile(r'(.+\n)\%s{2,}\n' % symbol, re.MULTILINE) return pattern.sub(r'%s \1' % replacement, s) new = s new = replace_title(new, '=', '=') new = replace_title(new, '+', '=====') new = replace_title(new, '^', '====') new = replace_title(new, '~', '===') #new = replace_title(new, '-', '==') s.seek(0) s.write(new) s.resize(s.tell()) s.close() f.close() ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
* manual/known-issues.txt: fix s/Soucery/Sourcery/ typoPeter Korsgaard2013-10-071-1/+1
| | | | | Reported-by: homas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
* docs/manual: add a 'Known issues' chapterThomas Petazzoni2013-10-061-0/+32
Add a 'Known issues' chapter, which lists the exceptions I have currently in the autobuilder scripts to avoid known problems from occuring. I believe it is more useful to document them rather than keeping them hidden in my autobuilder script. [Peter: s/either/either use/] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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