From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 23:30:56 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC 1/1] docs/adding-packages-generic.txt: Add note if package does not use source In-Reply-To: <20190417071712.7238-1-vadim4j@gmail.com> References: <20190417071712.7238-1-vadim4j@gmail.com> Message-ID: <7ae95e75-4a5a-006a-db84-bc6b327849e4@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 17/04/2019 09:17, Vadim Kochan wrote: > Add some description how to allow to add package which does not need > any source code. > > Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan > --- > docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 9 +++++++-- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt > index 7be1754f54..96a57a519a 100644 > --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt > +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt > @@ -223,8 +223,13 @@ not and can not work as people would expect it should: > which Buildroot will use to download the tarball from > +LIBFOO_SITE+. If +HOST_LIBFOO_SOURCE+ is not specified, it defaults > to +LIBFOO_SOURCE+. If none are specified, then the value is assumed > - to be +libfoo-$(LIBFOO_VERSION).tar.gz+. + > - Example: +LIBFOO_SOURCE = foobar-$(LIBFOO_VERSION).tar.bz2+ > + to be +libfoo-$(LIBFOO_VERSION).tar.gz+. > + In case when the package does not use any source code (e.g. only performs > + some target/host altering), then +LIBFOO_SOURCE+ should be specified > + with empty value. + > + Examples: > + +LIBFOO_SOURCE = foobar-$(LIBFOO_VERSION).tar.bz2+ > + +LIBFOO_SOURCE = I'm probably stupid, but when is this needed? E.g. skeleton-init-sysv doesn't have any code, and it doesn't set _SOURCE to empty... Regards, Arnout > > * +LIBFOO_PATCH+ may contain a space-separated list of patch file > names, that Buildroot will download and apply to the package source >