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Gustavo Zacarias 65459f4571 dosfstools: bump to version 3.0.22
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-12 09:39:34 +02:00
arch targets: move target options to their own sub-menu 2013-09-05 15:45:24 +02:00
board Merge branch 'next' 2013-08-31 23:32:29 +02:00
boot syslinux: bump to version 4.07 2013-09-11 12:53:53 +02:00
configs configs: bump kernel use for RPi, use simpler defconfig 2013-09-05 15:45:24 +02:00
docs change package tarball compression to xz whenever possible 2013-09-08 22:44:23 +02:00
fs Fix build reproducibility in Make 3.82 2013-09-06 23:27:42 +02:00
linux linux.mk: target-install: drop extra (invalid) DEPMOD parameter 2013-09-11 13:21:53 +02:00
package dosfstools: bump to version 3.0.22 2013-09-12 09:39:34 +02:00
support pkg-stats: update set of files to skip 2013-09-11 13:00:58 +02:00
system kmod: does not support static builds 2013-09-02 23:22:14 +02:00
toolchain infra: introduce suitable-extractor helper function 2013-09-06 23:30:27 +02:00
.defconfig buildroot: get rid of s390 support 2009-01-12 14:36:14 +00:00
.gitignore update gitignore 2013-05-04 12:41:55 +02:00
CHANGES Update for 2013.08 2013-08-31 00:33:13 +02:00
Config.in Config.in: Fixup after BR2_ELF2FLT got renamed to BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_ELF2FLT 2013-09-09 23:32:08 +02:00
Config.in.legacy module-init-tools: remove package 2013-09-02 22:59:27 +02:00
COPYING clarify license and fix website license link 2009-05-08 09:29:41 +02:00
Makefile Makefile: also unexport PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR 2013-09-11 14:15:15 +02:00
Makefile.legacy legacy: add error target for host-pkg-config 2012-11-30 12:07:09 -08:00

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

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buildroot mailing list: buildroot@uclibc.org