buildroot-novena/docs/manual, branch 2013.02_rc1

package: remove scripts listed in _CONFIG_SCRIPTS from target

2013-02-08T21:32:53Z

The -config scripts are useless on the target, since they are only needed for development, so we remove them automatically. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

package: rename _CONFIG_FIXUP to _CONFIG_SCRIPTS

2013-02-08T21:31:49Z

This commit renames the newly introduced _CONFIG_FIXUP variable to _CONFIG_SCRIPTS, for two reasons: * _CONFIG_SCRIPTS will not only "fixup" the scripts in $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin, but also remove them from $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin. So it is not only about doing a "fixup". * On the principle, it is strange that the variable carries an indication of the action that will take place on those files. It should rather be named to say "Here are the -config scripts", and let the package infrastructure decide if it should fix them up, remove them, etc. This commit also updates the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

rootfs-overlay: also exclude .empty files

2013-02-08T21:11:24Z

This makes it possible to put empty directories in the overlay. Thanks to Aras Vaichas for pointing that out. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Acked-by: Samuel Martin Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: slightly reword the solutions to customize rootfs

2013-02-08T21:06:41Z

The order of the solutions to customize the root filesystem is changed: we now mention the post-build script mechanism *before* the custom root filesystem skeleton mechanism, because the former is preferred over the latter. In addition to this, we give a few more details about direct customization of the root filesystem in output/target, and about the custom target skeleton solution. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli Acked-by: Samuel Martin Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: no longer mention the package/customize thing

2013-02-08T21:06:41Z

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

docs/manual: mention the new post-image mechanism

2013-02-08T21:06:41Z

[Peter: fix minor typos] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Acked-by: Samuel Martin Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

Make savedefconfig save to a configured file.

2013-02-05T20:43:51Z

Store BR2_DEFCONFIG in .config, and use it to update the original input defconfig file after updating the configuration. When a config is created by using the BR2_DEFCONFIG=... option, this is saved in the .config file; later runs of savedefconfig will update that same location. It is also possible to configure this place in the interactive configuration. The BR2_DEFCONFIG value itself is not saved into the generated defconfig, since Kconfig considers it at its default. This is intentional, to avoid hard-coding an absolute path in the defconfig. It will anyway be set again when the defconfig is used with the 'make BR2_DEFCONFIG=... defconfig' command. As a side-effect of this change, the *config options have been moved out of the BR2_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG condition. This doesn't make any functional difference, because the .config is still not read for the *config targets. However, the defconfig and savedefconfig targets do need to include .config now, which makes them slightly slower. [Peter: slightly tweak help text] Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

target/generic: add filesystem overlay option

2013-02-05T20:35:33Z

The filesystem overlay is a tree that is copied over the target fs after building everything - which is currently usually done in the post-build script. [Peter: don't ignore missing directories] Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

manual: add section about storing the configuration.

2013-02-05T20:04:28Z

Reuse part of board-support.txt, and remove that one because it was unused. [Peter: minor tweaks to text] Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

pkg-infra: add _CONFIG_FIXUP to fix *-config files

2013-02-04T22:47:34Z

This patch will add _CONFIG_FIXUP variable to buildroot infra. It's purpose is to inform buildroot that the package in question contains some $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/*-config files and that we want to automatically fix prefixes of such files. It is often the case that many packages call these files during their configuration step to determine 3rd party library package locations and any flags needed to link against them. For example: Some package might try to check the existense and linking flags of NSPR package by calling $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/nspr-config --prefix. Without this fix. NSPR would return /usr/ as it's prefix which is wrong when cross-compiling. Correct would be $(STAGING_DIR)/usr. All packages that have _INSTALL_STAGING = YES defined and also install some config file(s) into $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin must hereafter also define _CONFIG_FIXUP with the correspondig filename(s). For example: DIVINE_CONFIG_FIXUP = divine-config or for multiple files: IMAGEMAGICK_CONFIG_FIXUP = Magick-config Wand-config Signed-off-by: Stefan Fröberg Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard