backport fixes from changeset:2408 to trunk

[openwrt.git] / docs / buildroot-documentation.html

diff --git a/docs/buildroot-documentation.html b/docs/buildroot-documentation.html
index 9dd42c1..ede3796 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/buildroot-documentation.html
+++ b/docs/buildroot-documentation.html
@@ -96,10 +96,17 @@
     <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 development you should get the latest version from cvs via:</p>
+    For any kind of OpenWrt development you should get the latest version from cvs via:</p>
 <pre>
  $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@openwrt.org:/openwrt co openwrt
 </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>
+<pre>
+ $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@openwrt.org:/openwrt co -rwhiterussian openwrt
+</pre>
+ 
 
     <h2><a name="using" id="using"></a>Using OpenWrt Buildroot</h2>
 
@@ -149,25 +156,13 @@
     <h2><a name="custom_targetfs" id="custom_targetfs"></a>Customizing the
     target filesystem</h2>
 
-    <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>target/default/target_skeleton/</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>
+    <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 />
 
     <h2><a name="custom_busybox" id="custom_busybox"></a>Customizing the
     Busybox configuration</h2>
@@ -483,7 +478,7 @@ foo-compile: bar-compile
     18
     19 $(eval $(call PKG_template,FOO,foo,$(PKG_VERSION)-$(PKG_RELEASE),$(ARCH)))
     20
-    21  $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/.configured: $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/.prepared
+    21  $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/.configured:
     22          (cd $(PKG_BUILD_DIR); \
     23                  $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
     24                  CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS)" \
@@ -592,6 +587,16 @@ 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
@@ -606,7 +611,7 @@ foo-compile: bar-compile
 
      <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>