Although it is possible to use relative paths, there are a few pitfalls
when doing so.
To avoid confusion for a (newcoming) user, use absolute paths in the
manual (as is done in examples for $(O)), since it is guaranteed to be
working without corner cases.
[Peter: s/relatively/relative/ as suggested by Thomas]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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>
To make it clear to the user that these options are external to Buildroot
and no support is provided by the Buildroot community.
With this, there's no need to recommend people to their options inside
a menu, so remove that from the documentation.
Kconfig nicely allows us to hide the menu completely if BR2_EXTERNAL isn't
used, so make use of that to not confuse people. It would be nice if we
could add some help text to explain the BR2_EXTERNAL stuff as well, but
that isn't supported on menus :/
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit updates the manual to add details on how to use the
BR2_EXTERNAL feature.
[Peter: minor tweaks, fix asciidoc tag as pointed out by Samuel]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
