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authorFrancois Perrad <fperrad@gmail.com>2018-12-19 09:17:03 +0100
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>2018-12-31 17:40:58 +0100
commitb38992449890753504a7c846837fdfc9a5142f99 (patch)
tree6c2fbdcc2fe92eb9e5317dd90042e65c727b8eff /docs
parent78c4144fb172d8c203939e1c2fa7a24b9e288415 (diff)
package/luarocks: add buildroot addon
This addon allows to generate a Buildroot package from a Luarocks package definition. Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-luarocks.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-luarocks.txt
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--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-luarocks.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-luarocks.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ Finally, on line 16, we invoke the +luarocks-package+
macro that generates all the Makefile rules that actually allows the
package to be built.
+Most of these details can be retrieved from the +rock+ and +rockspec+.
+So, this file and the Config.in file can be generated by running the
+command +luarocks buildroot foo lua-foo+ in the Buildroot
+directory. This command runs a specific Buildroot addon of +luarocks+
+that will automatically generate a Buildroot package. The result must
+still be manually inspected and possibly modified.
+
+* The +package/Config.in+ file has to be updated manually to include the
+ generated Config.in files.
+
[[luarocks-package-reference]]
==== +luarocks-package+ reference