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* core: enhance printvarsYann E. MORIN2017-03-291-0/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the output of printvars copntains the name of the variable, its expanded value and its un-expanded value. However, most of the time, we need the actual, expanded value, so it can be re-used from a (non-Buildroot) infrastructure script, like a post-build script, or a build-farm driver (e.g. a Jenkins job...) Add two options that a user may set to change the output of printvars: - QUOTED_VARS, if set, will quote the value - RAW_VARS, if set, will print the unexpanded value The new output by default only prints the expanded value now. So that it can be used as such: $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION BUSYBOX_VERSION=1.26.2 $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES QUOTED_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_RDEPENDENCIES='ncurses util-linux' $ make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES RAW_VARS=YES BUSYBOX_FINAL_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES=$(sort $(BUSYBOX_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES)) And it is even possible to directly evaluate it in a shell script: eval $(make -s printvars VARS=BUSYBOX_VERSION QUOTED_VARS=YES) Backward compatibility of the output is not maintained. It is believed that scripts that depended on the previous output were very fragile to begin with, because they had to filter the non-formatted output (splitting on spaces or braces was not really possible, because values could contain either). Document printvars and its options in the manual; list it in the output of 'make help'. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* docs/manual: add U-Boot configurationJörg Krause2015-07-191-0/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* Makefile: split off 'list-defconfigs' from 'help'Arnout Vandecappelle2015-04-041-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | As discussed in the FOSDEM2015 BR developer meeting, the output of 'make help' is too long for comfortable reading. To shorten it, split off the list of defconfigs in a new target, 'list-defconfigs'. Declare the new target as phony. Add 'list-defconfigs' to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* manual/user guide: move tip on configuration searchesThomas De Schampheleire2014-08-211-10/+0
| | | | | | | | | | This patch moves the tip on searching in the configuration editors into the section 'Buildroot configuration', which is more logical. The wording of that section is slightly adapted to fit this new part. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* manual/user guide: high-level restructuringThomas De Schampheleire2014-08-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch performs some additional restructuring of the manual, specifically in the User Guide. In detail: - Rename 'Daily use' to 'General Buildroot usage' - Move chapters 'make tips', 'Eclipse integration', and 'Advanced usage' as sections under the 'General Buildroot usage' chapter. - Rename 'Details on Buildroot configuration' into 'Buildroot configuration' - Rework the 'Customization' section as follows: - Move the short section on debugging the external toolchain wrapper into the rest of the explanation on external toolchains. - Remove the now redundant section on toolchains, as this is already explained in much more detail in the 'Buildroot configuration' chapter. - Move the sections on busybox/uclibc/kernel configuration from chapter 'Customization' into a separate chapter 'Configuration of other components'. - Rename the remaining part of the original 'Customization' chapter into 'Project-specific customization' and fold it together with the next chapter 'Storing the configuration' - Remove the chapter 'Going further in Buildroot innards' thanks to: - Moving the chapter 'How Buildroot works' to the Developer guide. - Moving the 'Advanced Buildroot usage' section to the 'General Buildroot usage' chapter. - Remove the chapter 'Hacking Buildroot' by: - Adding a reference to adding packages to the 'Project-specific customizations' chapter - Leaving out the explicit reference to creating board support, as this is part of the previous chapter already, so an extra reference is redundant. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* manual: fix spelling mistakesSimon Dawson2014-06-011-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
* manual/make-tips.txt: busybox doesn't have a savedefconfig targetPeter Korsgaard2014-05-311-2/+1
| | | | | | | So don't mention it here. Reported-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.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/make-tips.txt: fix typoJerzy Grzegorek2014-03-291-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* docs/manual: refresh informations about *-menuconfig targetsThomas Petazzoni2014-02-231-2/+4
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
* manual generation: check dependencies firstThomas De Schampheleire2013-11-011-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | To generate the manual, you need a few tools. If these are not present, pretty cryptic error messages are given. This patch adds a simple check for these dependencies, before attempting to build the manual. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* docs: update manual after Crosstool-NG backend removalThomas Petazzoni2013-10-061-2/+0
| | | | | | [Peter: remove a few more ctng references in customize-store.txt] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
* manual: minor typos and formating fixesSamuel Martin2013-08-101-3/+5
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* manual: tips: document how to build the manualA.R.D2013-08-101-0/+17
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: A.R.D. <contact@team-ard.com> Cc: Willy Lambert <lambert.willy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
* manual: cleanup and update editor tagsSamuel Martin2013-02-171-1/+2
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: trivial fixesArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)2012-11-271-22/+28
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: minor tweaksSimon Dawson2012-11-161-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | Minor grammatical and spelling tweaks to the manual content. Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* manual: add make-tips.txtSamuel Martin2012-11-151-0/+58
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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