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diff --git a/docs/manual/using.txt b/docs/manual/using.txt index 892caf580..9436981f0 100644 --- a/docs/manual/using.txt +++ b/docs/manual/using.txt @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ to run the Qt or GTK-based configurators. All of these "make" commands will need to build a configuration utility (including the interface), so you may need to install "development" packages for relevant libraries used by the -configuration utilities. Check the xref:requirement[] to know what -Buildroot needs, and specifically the xref:requirement-optional[system requirements] -to get the dependencies of favorite interface. +configuration utilities. Check xref:requirement[] to know what +Buildroot needs, and specifically the xref:requirement-optional[optional requirements] +to get the dependencies of your favorite interface. For each menu entry in the configuration tool, you can find associated help that describes the purpose of the entry. @@ -52,15 +52,15 @@ You *should never* use +make -jN+ with Buildroot: it does not support 'top-level parallel make'. Instead, use the +BR2_JLEVEL+ option to tell Buildroot to run each package compilation with +make -jN+. -This command will generally perform the following steps: +The `make` command will generally perform the following steps: -* Download source files (as required) -* Configure, build and install the cross-compiling toolchain using the - appropriate toolchain backend, or simply import an external toolchain -* Build/install selected target packages -* Build a kernel image, if selected -* Build a bootloader image, if selected -* Create a root filesystem in selected formats +* download source files (as required); +* configure, build and install the cross-compiling toolchain using the + appropriate toolchain backend, or simply import an external toolchain; +* build/install selected target packages; +* build a kernel image, if selected; +* build a bootloader image, if selected; +* create a root filesystem in selected formats. Buildroot output is stored in a single directory, +output/+. This directory contains several subdirectories: |