e49d4f0c37
Prepare to tell apart real packages from virtual packages.
Currently, the code implicitly recognises only real packages, and
discards virtual packages, because of the heuristic used to recognise
whether a symbol is a package:
- for real package:
- symbols : BR2_PACKAGE_FOO
- .mk files: foo.mk
- for virtual packages:
- symbols : BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_FOO
- .mk files: foo.mk
The current heuristic is to check for each symbol if a corresponding .mk
file exists, by stripping 'BR2_PACKAGE_' from the beginning of the symbol,
converting the result to lowercase, and checking if a .mk file exists.
So, as a side effect, it completely misses the virtual packages [*], which
is pretty nice since we get a list with only real packages that the user
can indeed select and see in the menuconfig.
[*] Except for 'cryptodev' and 'jpeg' which are both virtual packages and
normal packages. Except they are not normal packages, they are used to
display a choice of the implementation to use. This case will be fixed in
follow-up patches.
Since we'll soon need to also output the table of virtual packages, we
need to teach the _is_package() function to recognise them as well.
This patch is the first step into that direction: it introduces a new
function _is_real_package() that is just a wrapper to _is_package(), which
gains a new parameter, being the type of packages to filter on.
No behavioural change is made in this patch, it is just a preparatory
patch.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following:
1) run 'make menuconfig'
2) select the packages you wish to compile
3) run 'make'
4) wait while it compiles
5) Use your shiny new root filesystem. Depending on which sort of
root filesystem you selected, you may want to loop mount it,
chroot into it, nfs mount it on your target device, burn it
to flash, or whatever is appropriate for your target system.
You do not need to be root to build or run buildroot. Have fun!
Offline build:
==============
In order to do an offline-build (not connected to the net), fetch all
selected source by issuing a
$ make source
before you disconnect.
If your build-host is never connected, then you have to copy buildroot
and your toplevel .config to a machine that has an internet-connection
and issue "make source" there, then copy the content of your dl/ dir to
the build-host.
Building out-of-tree:
=====================
Buildroot supports building out of tree with a syntax similar
to the Linux kernel. To use it, add O=<directory> to the
make command line, E.G.:
$ make O=/tmp/build
And all the output files (including .config) will be located under /tmp/build.
More finegrained configuration:
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You can specify a config-file for uClibc:
$ make UCLIBC_CONFIG_FILE=/my/uClibc.config
And you can specify a config-file for busybox:
$ make BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FILE=/my/busybox.config
To use a non-standard host-compiler (if you do not have 'gcc'),
make sure that the compiler is in your PATH and that the library paths are
setup properly, if your compiler is built dynamically:
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3.orig HOSTCXX=gcc-4.3-mine
Depending on your configuration, there are some targets you can use to
use menuconfig of certain packages. This includes:
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3 linux-menuconfig
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3 uclibc-menuconfig
$ make HOSTCC=gcc-4.3 busybox-menuconfig
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