configure had to be called twice because with --mode=cross the
miniperl-step failed. However, just leaving out the --mode parameter
is sufficient to make it work. Since GNU_TARGET_NAME is always
different from the host's tuple (it has -buildroot- in it), we can
safely assume that the configure script will automatically enter
cross mode.
Also fix a type in perladmin definition.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Tim Sheridan [Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:26:04 +0000 (01:26 +0000)]
gstreamer: Added option to disable plugin registry.
The plugin registry can take a while to be generated when GStreamer is
initialized. Turning it off can speed up up GStreamer application launch
times. Default behaviour is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Tim Sheridan <tim.sheridan@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni [Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:07:03 +0000 (04:07 +0000)]
toolchain-external: on ARM, show comment about the availability of Linaro toolchains
On ARM, Linaro external toolchains are only visible if the user
selects Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9. Therefore, we add a comment that tells
the user that the Linaro toolchains are only available under those
conditions.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni [Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:24:08 +0000 (12:24 +0000)]
dbus: uses fork(), requires MMU
In order to solve
http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/34f6843137efda20626af72714c110280ec577d7/build-end.log,
this patch makes the D-Bus package as well as all the packages that
select the D-Bus package 'depends on BR2_USE_MMU'.
In addition, for the specific case of gvfs, the missing
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS dependency is added (threads are required by
D-Bus, so they are also required by gvfs which selects D-Bus).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni [Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:24:04 +0000 (12:24 +0000)]
gsl: fix build on !i386 uClibc
uClibc pretends to implement <fenv.h> as it installs the header, but
in practice, it only implements the functions for i386. This makes gsl
unhappy as it detects fenv.h, but then cannot use the fenv functions.
Moreover, the 7.2 version is the one used by Debian/Ubuntu, and it has
been tested to build fine with the two packages that depend on
libatomic_ops: libdrm and pulseaudio.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Vellemans Noel [Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:24:01 +0000 (12:24 +0000)]
mesa3d: requires host-libxml2 and host-python to generate some files
mesa3d now generates some C files at build time (related to the OpenGL
API) from XML files. This generation process is done using Python
scripts that require the libxml2 Python module.
Patch based on the initial work of Will Wagner (Thanks Will).
Signed-off-by: Vellemans Noel <noel.vellemans@visionbms.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni [Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:23:59 +0000 (12:23 +0000)]
python: use default configure commands to get shared build
Commit 3c90f754961c6d99059c0b6d0a66bc797a3c017b made Python use a
special ./configure command in order to avoid --enable-shared
--disable-static being passed, because it was causing issues when
building certain modules for a 64 bits system.
However, not having a shared libpython2.7 library for the host
prevents the libxml2 Python binding to get built.
So instead, we use the default configure command, but we add
--enable-static which is needed for Python to build correctly.
Note that we tested the build of Python on a 64 bits host as well as
the build of Python for a 64 bits target, and both went fine, with all
modules built properly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Peter Korsgaard [Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:19:26 +0000 (22:19 +0100)]
lua: don't be fancy when creating shared library
(Possibly) fixes #5354
The lua shared library patch was creating the shared library with
-nostdlib -lgcc for some unknown reason, which most likely is
the reason for the link issue reported in #5354.
Fix it by dropping these arguments, so gcc gets to figure out itself
what dependencies are needed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Philippe Reynes [Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:01:22 +0000 (13:01 +0100)]
Allow to run severals post build scripts instead of only one
Using severals post build scripts is usefull to share
script between severals boards/projects.
[Peter: fix trailing spaces in Config.in] Signed-off-by: Philippe Reynes <philippe.reynes@sagemcom.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni [Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:52:14 +0000 (03:52 +0000)]
Warn the user about the usage of output/target as the root filesystem
A very common mistake done by our users is that they use
output/target/ directory as their root filesystem. Even though this is
loudly documented in our Buildroot manual, people don't read
documentation, so it is not sufficient.
This patch adds a text file named
output/target/THIS_IS_NOT_YOUR_ROOT_FILESYSTEM which explains why
output/target isn't appropriate to use as the root filesystem. The
process is:
* At the beginning of the build, right after the skeleton has been
copied, support/misc/target-dir-warning.txt is copied to
output/target/THIS_IS_NOT_YOUR_ROOT_FILESYSTEM
* In the filesystem images creation code, this file is removed before
launching fakeroot, and restored right after that, so that this
file is not present in the generated root filesystem images.
Note that the file has not been added to the default skeleton for two
reasons:
* It would have annoying to have in our source tree a file named in
capital letters inside system/skeleton/
* The proposed way works even if the user uses a custom skeleton.
[Peter: fixed typo] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Juha Lumme <juha.lumme@gmail.com> Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni [Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:36:03 +0000 (12:36 +0000)]
Mark a number of development related packages as deprecated
automake, autoconf, libtool and make on the target are basically
useless if we don't support building a toolchain on the target. Of
course, the host variant of automake, autoconf and libtool will remain
available.
[Peter: fixup to apply after perl change] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni [Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:36:02 +0000 (12:36 +0000)]
Deprecate the support for the toolchain on target
As discussed during the ELCE 2012 Buildroot Developers Meeting, we no
longer want to support the possibility of building a toolchain for the
target. None of the core developers have any use for this, it has been
known to be broken or cause problems for a long time without anyone
providing fixes for it.
In addition to this, Buildroot is inherently a cross-compilation tool,
so the usage of a native toolchain on the target is not really
useful. Many newcomers are tempted to use this possibility even though
it is clearly not the intended usage of Buildroot.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni [Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:23:51 +0000 (07:23 +0000)]
xutil_util-macros: bump to version 1.17
Needed by other xapp versions bump, which themselves are needed to fix
the missing link against the Xmu library (build failures similar to
http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/1a4f84ad76ad8c4e70bff6878fc232edf46ff8f1/build-end.log).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Simon Dawson [Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:54:19 +0000 (04:54 +0000)]
manual: minor tweaks
Minor grammatical and spelling tweaks to the manual content.
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni [Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:01:14 +0000 (04:01 +0000)]
cpanminus: mark as broken
cpanminus is currently responsible for about half of the autobuilder
failures, due to the missing dependency on host-qemu. However, even
with the host-qemu proposed by Arnout, cpanminus will still not work
properly: it will try to execute on the build machine executables
built for the target. While qemu is here to emulate the instruction
set, there is still the unsolved problem of kernel headers version
mismatch between the target and the build environments.
So the whole approach that consists in using host-qemu for building
simply cannot work properly, and until it is solved, the package
should be marked as broken.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This patch makes the kexec package available only for the supported
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Simon Dawson [Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:47:21 +0000 (01:47 +0000)]
lcdproc: remove patch rejected upstream
Remove an lcdproc patch which has been rejected upstream. It has been
decided by lcdproc developer Markus Dolze that the behaviour of the
client_add_key command when handling the minus key is "intentional to
some degree."
This patch also takes the opportunity to remove the version number from the
single remaining lcdproc patch.
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
The 0.5.6 release added a new glcd driver, which requires the freetype and zlib
libraries. This patch makes the lcdproc package depend on freetype and zlib.
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Samuel Martin [Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:14:44 +0000 (03:14 +0000)]
manual: rework using.txt and update common-usage.txt
Consider the second chapter: "starting-up", as a tutorial.
Assuming that, using.txt only contains the very first commands used to get
configure and build its very first target system.
So, the following subsection from using.txt have been to common-usage.txt:
- Offline builds
- Building out-of-tree
- Environment variables
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Samuel Martin [Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:14:42 +0000 (03:14 +0000)]
manual: rework the whole documentation stub
The new skeleton of the manual as it has been thought:
1. About Buildroot:
Presentation of Buildroot
2. Starting up:
Everything to quickly and easily start working with Buildroot
3. Working with Buildroot
Basics to make your work fitting your needs
4. Troubleshooting
5. Going further in Buildroot's innards
Explaination of how buildroot is organised, how it works, etc
6. Developer Guidelines
7. Getting involved
8. Contibuting to Buildroot
9. Legal notice
10. Appendix
It is easy to distinguish two parts in this plan:
- Sections 1 to 4 mainly address people starting with Buildroot
- Sections 5 to 10 are more focused on how to develop Buildroot itself
Most of the existing sections have just been moved in the hierarchy,
few were split and dispatch in, what i think was the relevant section,
and numerous others have been created.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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