[Buildroot] [PATCH 11/13] help/manual: update help about the new $(LIBFOO_DL_DIR)
Maxime Hadjinlian
maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 16:22:09 UTC 2017
Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
---
Config.in | 3 +++
docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 72ceadfde6..0ad43679f3 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ config BR2_DL_DIR
If the Linux shell environment has defined the BR2_DL_DIR
environment variable, then this overrides this configuration
item.
+ The directory is organized with a subdirectory for each package.
+ Each package has its own $(LIBFOO_DL_DIR) variable that can be used
+ to find the correct path.
The default is $(TOPDIR)/dl
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
index 12cf1605d6..6e3b503f6b 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
the file using this URL. Otherwise, Buildroot will assume the file
to be downloaded is located at +LIBFOO_SITE+. Buildroot will not do
anything with those additional files, except download them: it will
- be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(DL_DIR)+.
+ be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(LIBFOO_DL_DIR)+.
* +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ determines the method used to fetch or copy the
package source code. In many cases, Buildroot guesses the method
@@ -537,8 +537,8 @@ In the action definitions, you can use the following variables:
* +$(@D)+, which contains the directory in which the package source
code has been uncompressed.
-* +$(DL_DIR)+ contains the path to the directory where all the downloads made
- by Buildroot are stored.
+* +$(LIBFOO_DL_DIR)+ contains the path to the directory where all the downloads
+ made by Buildroot are stored.
* +$(TARGET_CC)+, +$(TARGET_LD)+, etc. to get the target
cross-compilation utilities
--
2.13.2
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