buildroot/docs/manual, branch 2017.08.1

docs/manual: fix BR2_EXTERNAL path typo

2017-10-17T08:53:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Cam Hutchison Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni (cherry picked from commit 0c76d89e54705a477cedad5dc39b668af771be7d) Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs: clarify _PATCH behaviour

2017-10-16T21:34:24+00:00

Reiterate once more that _PATCH variable can point to an arbitrary URL, not just to a path relative to _SITE. While we're at it, also explain that the patch should be added to the .hash file. Signed-off-by: Alexander Mukhin [Arnout: add sentence about .hash file.] Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) (cherry picked from commit 48934ed0a97b7baee7ad8fbfb19e449024cdda9d) Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: fix typo

2017-10-16T21:19:16+00:00

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard (cherry picked from commit e10e4d19e3c02a9d251499172a65c77c59e15a67) Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

core/legal-info: use hash file from version sub-dir

2017-07-29T20:34:41+00:00

When we have multiple versions for a package, and the licensing terms depend on the version actually selected (e.g. like Qt5), storing the hashes for those license files in the .hash file is broken: the infra will ensure that all hashes for a file do match, which would not be the case here. We fix that by first looking for a hash file in the version sub-dir first, and if that does not exist, then we use the main hash file. Drop the useless intermediate variable 'ret'. Update the documentation accordingly. Reported-by: Joshua Henderson Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Joshua Henderson Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Luca Ceresoli Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

package/linux-tools: change method for including linux-tool sub-makefiles

2017-07-19T19:16:38+00:00

Make inclusion ordering of all linux-tool-*.mk sub-makefiles explicit instead of relying on alphabetical sort order. This is done by renaming the Linux tools sub-makefiles to the format linux-tool-*.mk.in. This causes the top-level Makefile to ignore the Linux tools sub-makefiles. Until now, the main Makefile included all linux-tool-*.mk files, as well as linux-tools.mk, and it relied on alphabetical sorting to include them in the proper order (linux-tool-*.mk before linux-tools.mk). Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" [Thomas: improve comment in the code as suggested by Yann.] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

manual: patches are not applied for SITE_METHOD = local

2017-07-09T15:25:48+00:00

We had several remarks on the mailing list of users that were surprised that patches were not applied for packages whose SITE_METHOD is local. So document this. Note that for OVERRIDE_SRCDIR itself it is already documented: When Buildroot finds that for a given package, an _OVERRIDE_SRCDIR has been defined, it will no longer attempt to download, extract and patch the package. Instead, it will directly use the source code available in in the specified directory. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

manual: remove references to host/usr paths

2017-07-05T14:06:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: update gettext details

2017-07-04T23:37:38+00:00

The way gettext is handled in Buildroot has significantly changed, with changes visible to packages. This commit updates the relevant section of the manual to document how packages should now interact with the gettext support. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)

manual: add documentation about DL_DIR

2017-07-04T15:19:08+00:00

And at the same time don't encourage use of BR2_DL_DIR Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: document hashes for license files

2017-07-03T16:03:51+00:00

[Peter: use sha256 in example] Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Luca Ceresoli Cc: Peter Korsgaard Cc: Rahul Bedarkar Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard