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Felix Fietkau 5868331214 build: don't call prereq for any package/symlinks rules
Most of the time, we want to make sure OpenWrt has been configured and
setup before start running make. However, in case of package/symlinks,
forcing prereq as a dependency creates multiple issues:
*when executed on a clean workspace, it will prompt for user input
 and open a menuconfig window before executing the feeds command
*the only way around that is to provide a .config. However, the "prereq"
 target would then run a "make defconfig", which will remove all the
 packages in the .config but from external feeds, as feeds have not been
 installed yet.

The only way to currently work around this, is to generate a fake config
by running "make defconfig", then "make package/symlinks", copy the real
config (which at this point disregards the previously generated config),
and run make defconfig again. Something like this:

make defconfig
make package/symlinks
cp real.config .config
make defconfig

This change is removing the need for the first defconfig, making the
process more logical for OpenWrt users using the package/symlinks target.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Olivari <mathieu@qca.qualcomm.com>

SVN-Revision: 45657
2015-05-10 11:17:29 +00:00
config build: enable package list signing by default 2015-05-05 21:16:13 +00:00
docs docs: Fix typo buysbox -> busybox. 2015-04-09 10:32:26 +00:00
include build: don't call prereq for any package/symlinks rules 2015-05-10 11:17:29 +00:00
package ppp: remove the persist option, netifd handles reconnects 2015-05-09 21:14:46 +00:00
scripts env: allow passing a commit message on save 2015-05-01 17:23:15 +00:00
target ar71xx: add status led found on ew-dorin boards 2015-05-10 07:47:04 +00:00
toolchain uClibc: backport sync_file_range fixes (closes: #19350) 2015-04-02 23:21:30 +00:00
tools mktplinkfw: add flag to ignore size limit (used for initramfs images) 2015-05-08 14:02:33 +00:00
.gitattributes add .gitattributes to prevent the git autocrlf option from messing with CRLF/LF in files 2012-05-08 13:30:49 +00:00
.gitignore build: add integration for managing opkg package feed keys 2015-04-06 19:39:51 +00:00
BSDmakefile add missing copyright header 2007-02-26 01:05:09 +00:00
Config.in scripts/config: sync with linux upstream 2015-01-08 14:33:53 +00:00
LICENSE finally move buildroot-ng to trunk 2016-03-20 17:29:15 +01:00
Makefile build: don't call prereq for any package/symlinks rules 2015-05-10 11:17:29 +00:00
README Add 'subversion' build dependency to README 2014-08-31 12:06:32 +00:00
feeds.conf.default feeds.conf.default: add new targets feed 2015-03-19 11:58:35 +00:00
rules.mk build: add integration for managing opkg package feed keys 2015-04-06 19:39:51 +00:00

README

This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution.

Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated
configuration for the toolchain and firmware.

You need to have installed gcc, binutils, bzip2, flex, python, perl, make,
find, grep, diff, unzip, gawk, getopt, subversion, libz-dev and libc headers.

Run "./scripts/feeds update -a" to get all the latest package definitions
defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default respectively
and "./scripts/feeds install -a" to install symlinks of all of them into
package/feeds/.

Use "make menuconfig" to configure your image.

Simply running "make" will build your firmware.
It will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain, 
the kernel and all choosen applications.

You can use "scripts/flashing/flash.sh" for remotely updating your embedded
system via tftp.

The OpenWrt system is documented in docs/. You will need a LaTeX distribution
and the tex4ht package to build the documentation. Type "make -C docs/" to build it.

To build your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux, BSD or MacOSX system
(case-sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin will not be supported because of
the lack of case sensitiveness in the file system.


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