manual: $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/{Config.in, external.mk} are mandatory

The manual is a bit vague about whether Config.in and external.mk
are mandatory or optional.

Make it explicit in the manual that they are mandatory.

Reported-by: Jérémy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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Yann E. MORIN 2014-02-08 17:04:02 +01:00 committed by Peter Korsgaard
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@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ Or disable the usage of external definitions:
logic. Buildroot automatically includes +BR2_EXTERNAL/Config.in+ to
make it appear in the top-level configuration menu, and includes
+BR2_EXTERNAL/external.mk+ with the rest of the makefile logic.
Providing those two files is mandatory, but they can be empty.
+
The main usage of this is to store package recipes. The recommended
way to do this is to write a +BR2_EXTERNAL/Config.in+ that looks