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    • Thomas Petazzoni's avatar
      documentation: update after major changes · 84a8eafd
      Thomas Petazzoni authored 
      

 * Remove the huge section describing the design of the removed
   "project" feature

 * Update all references to the output directory hierarchy to match
   the new one

 * Add new sections on how to rebuild single packages and how to
   create board support

 * Other updates, clarifications, reorganizations

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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    • Thomas Petazzoni's avatar
      Rename the output directories · 3b2a803d
      Thomas Petazzoni authored 
      

In the output directory, we now have

 - build/    where all the packages are built
 - images/   where the final kernel and rootfs images are stored
 - staging/  the staging directory (containing the development files
             and libraries compiled for the target)
 - target/   which contains the target root filesystem
 - host/     which contains all the host programs
 - stamps/   which contains the stamps files

Therefore, the build_ARCH and toolchain_build_ARCH have been
removed. People willing to use the same Buildroot sources to compile
for different architectures are invited to use the O= command line
option for out-of-tree compilation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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    • Thomas Petazzoni's avatar
      Remove BR2_TOPDIR_PREFIX and BR2_TOPDIR_SUFFIX · fd3800c1
      Thomas Petazzoni authored 
      

The same effect can be done using out-of-tree build with O=

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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    • Thomas Petazzoni's avatar
      By default, put the output in an output/ directory · a07d6b9d
      Thomas Petazzoni authored 
      

Instead of putting all the build-related stuff as a mess in the
Buildroot sources, group them in an output/ directory.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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    • Thomas Petazzoni's avatar
      Remove the BOARD/LOCAL feature · 18183726
      Thomas Petazzoni authored 
      

This can be achieved by adding a new target in target/device/, and I
will later propose a mechanism to add external boards and packages, so
that our users not willing to get their target-specific or
package-specific things merged can keep them cleanly separated from
Buildroot tree.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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    • Thomas Petazzoni's avatar
      Remove the "project" feature · 397fe5cc
      Thomas Petazzoni authored 
      

The "project" feature was designed to allow to several projects to be
built inside the same Buildroot source tree and allowing the toolchain
and non-configurable packages to be shared between the different
projects on the same architecture. While being interesting in theory,
this feature adds a level of complexity to Buildroot, both from an
user perspective and from a developer perspective, while one of the
main Buildroot strengh is to be simple. Moreover, this feature is only
seldomly used by our users.

From a user-level perspective, this for example allows to remove the
project_build_ARCH directory, which was very confusing. The
autotools-stamps directory is also removed, since these stamps are
back at their normal location.

Description of the changes involved :

 * project/, directory removed

 * Makefile

    - Don't include project/Makefile.in and project/project.mk anymore

    - Grab a copy of the contents of project/Makefile.in at the
      location it was imported, but remove the definition related to
      PROJECT_BUILD_DIR. The TARGET_DIR is now in
      $(BUILD_DIR)/target_dir

    - Remove the creation/removal of the $(PROJECT_BUILD_DIR) and
      $(PROJECT_BUILD_DIR)/autotools-stamps directories

    - Don't make world depends on target-host-info. This target was
      defined by project/project.mk to customize /etc/issue,
      /etc/hostname and create /etc/br-version depending on the
      project definitions. We can of course imagine re-adding such a
      feature later.

    - Replace PROJECT_BUILD_DIR by BUILD_DIR everywhere

    - Remove the update, log and lognr.$(PROJECT) target, they were
      specific to the project feature.

 * package/Makefile.autotools.in

    - Replace PROJECT_BUILD_DIR by BUILD_DIR for the location of the
      configure cache

    - Move the INSTALL_TARGET and HOOK_POST_INSTALL stamps to the same
      directory as the other stamps (i.e, in the package directory).

 * package/Makefile.in

    - Replace PROJECT_BUILD_DIR by BUILD_DIR for the location of the
      configure cache

 * package/at/at.mk,
   package/busybox/busybox.mk,
   package/busybox/initramfs.mk,
   package/customize/customize.mk,
   package/linux-fusion/linux-fusion.mk,
   package/ltp-testsuite/ltp-testsuite.mk,
   package/nfs-utils/nfs-utils.mk,
   target/cpio/cpioroot.mk,
   target/cramfs/cramfs.mk,
   target/device/Atmel/DataFlashBoot/DataflashBoot.mk,
   target/device/Atmel/Makefile.in,
   target/device/Atmel/at91bootstrap/at91bootstrap.mk,
   target/device/KwikByte/Makefile.in,
   target/ext2/ext2root.mk,
   target/initramfs/initramfs.mk,
   target/iso9660/iso9660.mk,
   target/jffs2/jffs2root.mk,
   target/linux/Makefile.in,
   target/romfs/romfs.mk,
   target/squashfs/squashfsroot.mk,
   target/tar/tarroot.mk,
   target/ubifs/ubifsroot.mk

    - Replace PROJECT_BUILD_DIR by BUILD_DIR

 * target/device/Config.in

    - Do not include project/Config.in anymore

 * target/linux/Makefile.in.advanced

    - Replace PROJECT_BUILD_DIR by BUILD_DIR

    - Store the stamps file in $(STAMP_DIR) instead of
      $(PROJECT_BUILD_DIR)/autotools-stamps

 * target/u-boot/Makefile.in

    - Replace PROJECT_BUILD_DIR by BUILD_DIR

    - Remove $(PROJECT) from the U-Boot target binary name

    - Remove the insertion in the configuration of the project name as
      the hostname

    - The u-boot-autoscript target now generates
      $(U_BOOT_AUTOSCRIPT).img instead of
      $(U_BOOT_AUTOSCRIPT).$(PROJECT)

 * toolchain/gcc/gcc-uclibc-3.x.mk
   toolchain/gcc/gcc-uclibc-4.x.mk

    - Move the stamps files to $(STAMP_DIR)

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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    • Peter Korsgaard's avatar
      busybox: bump 1.14.x version · b3ee84e4
      Peter Korsgaard authored 
      

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
      b3ee84e4
    • Peter Korsgaard's avatar
      kernel-headers: bump 2.6.27.x / 2.6.30.x stable versions · 20be3ce9
      Peter Korsgaard authored 
      

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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    • Olaf Rempel's avatar
      iptables: use multipurpose binaries and bump version · 27cf8114
      Olaf Rempel authored 
      

Closes #587

- bump version to 1.4.4
- iptables-optional-ipv6.patch no longer needed (included in upstream)
- use ipXtables-multi binaries with symlinks to ipXtables, ipXtables-save,
  ipXtables-restore instead of 3 distinct binaries

Signed-off-by: default avatarOlaf Rempel <razzor@kopf-tisch.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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