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This commit allows the BR2_EXTERNAL directory to contain Config.in and Makefile code, which gets integrated into the Buildroot build logic: - Buildroot automatically includes the $BR2_EXTERNAL/Config.in in the top-level configuration menu. - Buildroot automatically includes the BR2_EXTERNAL/external.mk in the build logic, so it can for example be used to include other .mk files that define package recipes. This is typically intended to be used to create target packages in the BR2_EXTERNAL directory, but can also be used for bootloaders, host packages, or other custom make logic. We also add a dummy Config.in file in support/dummy-external/ to ensure that the source "$BR2_EXTERNAL/Config.in" line will point to an existing file even when BR2_EXTERNAL is not used by the user. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Acked-by: Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com> Tested-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.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:
===============================
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
Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the
buildroot mailing list: buildroot@uclibc.org