From 7d51245340742956d612c8a569f904d3a946135f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wbx Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:00:30 +0000 Subject: demistifying make *clean targets, fix some clean targets issues git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/openwrt@272 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73 --- README | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d718e5971 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux Distribution +It is a modified uClibc buildroot2. + +Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated +configuration for the toolchain and firmware. + +Simply running 'make' will build your firmware and a tarball +of kernel modules. It will download all sources, build the +cross-compile toolchain, the kernel and all choosen applications. + +You can use flash.sh for remotely updating your embedded system +via tftp. + + +There are some cleanup targets we would like to explain. +"make clean" will only clean the firmware images and the root +filesystem. "make dirclean" will remove the extracted kernel source +and all exctracted software. (busybox,bridge-utils,..), but will +preserve your toolchain. (compiler,linker,..) +"make distclean" will remove everything, including the toolchain, +all downloaded source code archives and your firmware configuration. +You can cleanup separate directories by using "make application-dirclean" +and rebuild the firmware with "make". + +Be happy.. + Your OpenWRT Project + http://www.openwrt.org + + -- cgit v1.2.3