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diff --git a/docs/buildroot-documentation.html b/docs/buildroot-documentation.html index ede3796a6..d23763987 100644 --- a/docs/buildroot-documentation.html +++ b/docs/buildroot-documentation.html @@ -95,16 +95,16 @@ <h2><a name="download" id="download"></a>Obtaining OpenWrt Buildroot</h2> - <p>OpenWrt Buildroot is available via CVS - Concurrent Version System. - For any kind of OpenWrt development you should get the latest version from cvs via:</p> + <p>OpenWrt Buildroot is available via SVN aka subversion. + For any kind of OpenWrt development you should get the latest version from svn via:</p> <pre> - $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@openwrt.org:/openwrt co openwrt + $ svn co https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/ </pre> - <p>If you only like to create your own custom firmware images and pakages we - strongely suggest to use the CVS branch of the stable version (whiterussian): + <p>If you only like to create your own custom firmware images and packages we + strongly suggest to use the SVN branch of the stable version (whiterussian): </p> <pre> - $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@openwrt.org:/openwrt co -rwhiterussian openwrt + $ svn co https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/branches/whiterussian/ </pre> @@ -156,13 +156,25 @@ <h2><a name="custom_targetfs" id="custom_targetfs"></a>Customizing the target filesystem</h2> - <li>You can customize the target filesystem skeleton, available under - <code>package/base-files/default/</code>. You can change - configuration files or other stuff here. However, the full file hierarchy - is not yet present, because it's created during the compilation process. - So you can't do everything on this target filesystem skeleton, but - changes to it remains even when you completely rebuild the cross-compilation - toolchain and the tools.<br /> + <p>There are two ways to customize the resulting target filesystem:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Customize the target filesystem directly, and rebuild the image. The + target filesystem is available under <code>build_ARCH/root/</code> where + <code>ARCH</code> is the chosen target architecture, usually mipsel. + You can simply make your changes here, and run make target_install afterwards, + which will rebuild the target filesystem image. This method allows to do + everything on the target filesystem, but if you decide to rebuild your toolchain, + tools or packages, these changes will be lost.</li> + + <li>Customize the target filesystem skeleton, available under + <code>package/base-files/default/</code>. You can customize + configuration files or other stuff here. However, the full file hierarchy + is not yet present, because it's created during the compilation process. + So you can't do everything on this target filesystem skeleton, but + changes to it remains even when you completely rebuild the cross-compilation + toolchain and the tools.<br /> + </ul> <h2><a name="custom_busybox" id="custom_busybox"></a>Customizing the Busybox configuration</h2> @@ -283,7 +295,7 @@ default) and the target filesystem skeleton. This directory will contain the final root filesystem. To set it up, it first deletes it, then it copies the skeleton available in <code>target/default/target_skeleton</code> - and then removes useless <code>CVS/</code> directories.</li> + and then removes useless <code>SVN/</code> directories.</li> <li>Call the <code>prepare</code>, <code>compile</code> and <code>install</code> targets for the subdirectories <code>toolchain</code>, <code>package</code> @@ -478,7 +490,7 @@ foo-compile: bar-compile 18 19 $(eval $(call PKG_template,FOO,foo,$(PKG_VERSION)-$(PKG_RELEASE),$(ARCH))) 20 - 21 $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/.configured: + 21 $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/.configured: $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/.prepared 22 (cd $(PKG_BUILD_DIR); \ 23 $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \ 24 CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS)" \ @@ -587,16 +599,6 @@ foo-compile: bar-compile recursevily strip all binaries and libraries. Finally <code>IPKG_BUILD</code> is called to create the package.</p> - <p>If you want other targets to be executed at <code>compile</code>, - <code>install</code> or <code>clean</code> time (e.g. for installing - a library into the staging dir), just create the targets (usually - <code>install-dev</code> and <code>uninstall-dev</code>) and enable - them like this: -<pre> -compile-targets: install-dev -clean-targets: uninstall-dev -</pre> - <h3>Conclusion</h3> <p>As you can see, adding a software to buildroot is simply a @@ -611,7 +613,7 @@ clean-targets: uninstall-dev <h2><a name="links" id="links"></a>Resources</h2> - <p>To learn more about OpenWrt, you can visit this website: + <p>To learn more about OpenWrt you can visit this website: <a href="http://openwrt.org/">http://openwrt.org/</a></p> </div> |