Difference between revisions of "Buildroot:ManualOrganization"

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** Details on adding licensing information to packages
 
** Details on adding licensing information to packages
 
** Details on gettext/libiconv handling
 
** Details on gettext/libiconv handling
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* Contribution
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** How to report bugs (bug tracker, IRC). Explain to include the .config file + 100-200 last lines of build log after doing a complete 'make clean; make'
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** How to send patches.

Revision as of 13:52, 1 August 2012

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
    • Explain the configuration of the kernel, and real-time extensions
    • Explain the root filesystem types, with specific details on the special initramfs case
  • 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
  • Contribution
    • How to report bugs (bug tracker, IRC). Explain to include the .config file + 100-200 last lines of build log after doing a complete 'make clean; make'
    • How to send patches.