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+++ b/openwrt/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>