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| -rw-r--r-- | Config.in | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ 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 $(TOPDIR)/dl diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt index 9d1428ad40..62906d92bb 100644 --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : the file using this URL. Otherwise, Buildroot will assume the file to be downloaded is located at +LIBFOO_SITE+. Buildroot will not do anything with those additional files, except download them: it will - be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(DL_DIR)+. + be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(LIBFOO_DL_DIR)+. * +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ determines the method used to fetch or copy the package source code. In many cases, Buildroot guesses the method @@ -554,8 +554,8 @@ In the action definitions, you can use the following variables: * +$(@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 for +libfoo+ are stored in. * +$(TARGET_CC)+, +$(TARGET_LD)+, etc. to get the target cross-compilation utilities |