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Michael Roth c2946d1139 .gitignore: Update to the new directory hierachy
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2009-09-23 09:16:07 +02:00
docs documentation: update after major changes 2009-09-16 23:01:07 +02:00
package rename TOOL_BUILD_DIR to TOOLCHAIN_DIR 2009-09-23 09:15:27 +02:00
scripts script: use qstrip 2009-09-05 15:13:16 +02:00
target rename TOOL_BUILD_DIR to TOOLCHAIN_DIR 2009-09-23 09:15:27 +02:00
toolchain rename TOOL_BUILD_DIR to TOOLCHAIN_DIR 2009-09-23 09:15:27 +02:00
.defconfig buildroot: get rid of s390 support 2009-01-12 14:36:14 +00:00
.gitignore .gitignore: Update to the new directory hierachy 2009-09-23 09:16:07 +02:00
CHANGES samba: add option to install libsmbclient 2009-09-21 23:26:51 +02:00
Config.in Change the default BR2_DL_DIR location 2009-09-23 08:46:52 +02:00
COPYING clarify license and fix website license link 2009-05-08 09:29:41 +02:00
Makefile Move download directory 'dl' back to the top hierachy of buildroot 2009-09-23 09:15:39 +02:00
TODO coreutils: add TODO note about stripping the installed binaries 2009-07-31 15:00:15 +02:00

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 sortof
    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!

 -Erik

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 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 linux26-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