buildroot/docs/manual, branch 2016.11

docs/manual: fix typo

2016-11-29T22:28:25+00:00

Also remove dangling reference to virtual package lists. Signed-off-by: Lucile Quirion Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: fix documentation about BR2_EXTERNAL__PATH variable

2016-11-20T14:55:22+00:00

The BR2_EXTERNAL documentation improperly tells to use the BR2_EXTERNAL__DIR variable to reference the location of the BR2_EXTERNAL directory. But in fact the variable is named BR2_EXTERNAL__PATH. In addition, some closing double quotes were missing. This commit fixes both of those issues. Signed-off-by: Jerry Evans Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: fix scanpypi path typos

2016-10-19T21:39:42+00:00

Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: document both user-facing br2-external variables

2016-10-19T21:20:43+00:00

While BR2_EXTERNAL__PATH was already documented, it was not made obvious that it could be reused in post-biuld, post-image and in-fakeroot scripts. The BR2_EXTERNAL__DESC variable was not documented at all. Update the manual to fix this. Note: a2x chokes on this: .Note: Both +BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_PATH+ and +BR2_EXTERNAL_$(NAME)_DESC+ are available [...] and spits out a totally useless error message: a2x: ERROR: "xsltproc" --stringparam toc.section.depth 1 --stringparam callout.graphics 0 --stringparam navig.graphics 0 --stringparam admon.textlabel 1 --stringparam admon.graphic 0 --stringparam chunk.section.depth 0 --output "/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/docs/manual/manual.html" "/etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/xhtml.xsl" "/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/docs/manual/manual.xml" returned non-zero exit status 6 So, we had to resort to using different quoting styles for each variables. They are not semantically equivalent, but the rendering is the same with the default CSS (which we are using). That's gonna be good-enough for now... Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Benoît Allard Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: document the br2-external desc: field

2016-10-16T11:01:02+00:00

Docuement the new, optional desc: field for an external.desc file. That part of the manual was starting to be a bit of a mess, so reorganise it. Provide a complete br2-external tree example. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

core: allow a br2-external tree to override a defconfig

2016-10-16T11:01:02+00:00

Currently, it is not possible for a br2-external tree to override a defconfig bundled in Buildroot, nor is it possible to override one from a previous br2-external tree in the stack. However, it is interesting that a latter br2-external tree be able to override a defconfig: - the ones bundled in Buildroot are minimalist, and almost always build a toolchain, so a br2-external tree may want to provide a "better" defconfig (better, in the sense "suited for the project"); - similarly for a defconfig from a previous br2-external tree. But we can't do that, as the rules for the defconfigs are generated in the order the br2-external trees are specified, all after the bundled defconfigs. Those rule are patten-matching rules, which means that the first one to match is used, and the following ones are ignored. Add a new utility macro, 'reverse', inspired from GMSL, that does what it says: reverse a list of words. Use that macro to reverse the list of br2-external trees, so that the latters win over the formers, and even over bundled ones. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle Cc: Samuel Martin Cc: Romain Naour Cc: Julien CORJON Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: document multi br2-external

2016-10-16T11:01:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle Cc: Samuel Martin Cc: Romain Naour Cc: Julien CORJON Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: add appendix to convert old br2-external trees

2016-10-16T11:01:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle Cc: Samuel Martin Cc: Romain Naour Cc: Julien CORJON [Peter: slightly reword] Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: document the br2-external NAME

2016-10-16T11:01:02+00:00

Update the manual with the new external.desc mandatory file. Take the opportunity to add a section listing all mandatory files, Config.in, external.mk and the new external.desc, instead of just hinting about them in the external package recipes section. Change the examples to use the NAME-suffixed variable instead of the raw BR2_EXTERNAL variable. Change all references to BR2_EXTERNAL elsewhere in the manual to now use the 'br2-external tree' terminology. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle Cc: Samuel Martin Cc: Romain Naour Cc: Julien CORJON Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs: update URL to uClibc-ng homepage

2016-10-14T14:49:35+00:00

It is not necessary to update all mentioning of uClibc, but at least we should point to the right homepage of the used project. Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard