Buildroot:ManualOrganization
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Discussion around the organization of the Buildroot manual
Proposed organization
List of topics that must be covered
- Configuration
- Explain the impact of the target architecture variant selection
- Explain the toolchain backends
- Explain the init systems
- Explain the /dev management strategies
- How to add new packages
- The different package infrastructures
- Details on autotools-package infrastructure, on cmake-package infrastructure, generic-package infrastructure
- Details on how to write the Config.in files: when 'depends on' should be used, when 'select' should be used. How to properly handle dependencies on toolchain features (RPC, locale, etc.)
- Details on hooks
- Details on adding patches to packages
- Details on adding licensing information to packages
- Details on gettext/libiconv handling
