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Due to some tricky make behavior, the license texts of host packages that did not provide an explicit HOST_FOO_LICENSE_FILES definition was not saved. The problem is that it is not straightforward to use a variable defined/updated inside an evaluated block as input to a foreach statement. If you try to use $(FOO) then only the original value of FOO is used for foreach, any update inside the block is ignored. However, if you use $$(FOO), the entire contents of FOO (typically a list of items) is passed as one item to foreach, thus causing just one iteration instead of several. >From Arnout Vandecapelle's explanation: Any variable referenced with a single $ inside the inner-generic-package macro is expanded before the resulting contents are eval'ed. Therefore, it is not possible to refer to variables defined by the inner-generic-package macro from within a single-$ function call. To fix the problem, one should defer the evaluation of the entire block using double dollar signs. Additionally, a few empty lines have been added to the legal-info-foo block for clarity. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com> Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> 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:
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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
Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the
buildroot mailing list: buildroot@uclibc.org