Yann E. MORIN"
1b17d874c5
docs: move the Mercurial tutorial to the tutorials section
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Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
2010-08-14 20:26:23 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
a211f4100d
docs: split into multiple files
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The overview.txt file has evolved into more than just an overview.
Split it into chapters, and include the misc tutorials.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
2010-08-14 16:37:11 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
0c771a45d4
docs: update known-issues
2010-08-01 13:39:10 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
a8fa17de9f
docs/known-issues: document the "error compiling FC test program" issue
2010-07-22 23:33:17 +02:00
Titus von Boxberg
979c2abb86
docs/README.freebsd.txt: Short intro for FreeBSD
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Provide short README for FreeBSD as a host OS for ct-ng.
2010-05-22 14:11:27 +02:00
Titus von Boxberg
e4f10fbdf4
docs/README.macos.txt: Provide hints section
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Hints for building tool chains.
2010-05-30 12:11:39 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
3c351b899d
docs: update credtis, point to the repository log
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The docs/CREDITS file dates back to the SVN repository.
Now that we use Mercurial, the repository stores appropriate
authorship for each commit. Say so in the CREDITS.
2010-05-30 18:19:05 +02:00
Titus von Boxberg
9bc6e2e625
docs: Provide new Readme for MacOS
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Short README for usage of ct-ng under MacOS.
Remove obsolete MacOS-X.txt
yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr:
Make it 80-columns clean, plus a few fixes
2010-05-25 18:25:11 +02:00
Titus von Boxberg
d6d670bac2
docs/overview.txt: Provide short mercurial HOWTO
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The usage of hg mq is imho not very well documented.
Give a short intro for the most important use cases
for contributions to ct-ng.
yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr:
Slightly rewrote the explanations for the introductory message.
2010-05-22 18:48:50 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
76b459919f
docs: update the known issues
2010-04-30 14:33:07 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
52304e2e56
docs: update the section about the wrapper
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The wrapper is no longer needed when building
non-shared companion libraries. Document that.
2010-04-28 22:24:01 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
24cb85167d
kconfig: silence a warning about undefined env variable
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When using an environment variable to set a config entry,
don'twarn if it is not defined. Update doc accordingly.
2010-03-05 09:43:00 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN"
daca7d6672
config: prepare for build-system backend
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When acting as a backend for a build-system, we should not build
any application that runs on the target, that is:
- no native gdb
- no companion libraries
- no binutils libraries
- no debug tools (save for gdbserver)
- ...
Here, we simply prepare the (hidden) config option that will detect
that we are acting as a back-end.
Update doc accordingly.
2010-03-05 09:19:56 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN"
013230cda9
scripts: add action to extract config from a build.log file
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That got removed quite some time ago, but is really usefull to get the
configuration from a build.log file of a failing build.
2010-02-11 21:28:10 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN"
0e2fb72a75
docs: do not document CT_KERNEL_ARCH, it's going away...
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Since we merged the 32/64-bit archs, and we explicitly used
the Linux kernel arch name, we can get rid of CT_KERNEL_ARCH.
2010-01-23 16:49:56 +01:00
Richard Strand
652d8eebd9
documentation: Remove refs to seemingly native toolchains issue
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Remove references to the seemingly native toolchains do not build
issue as it seems to be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Richard Strand <richard.strand@icomera.com>
2010-01-08 18:48:21 +00:00
Frederic Roussel"
6d9e27b5b7
Fix typos and adjust some documentation.
2009-11-17 10:01:22 -08:00
Yann E. MORIN"
cbbe785842
docs: adding naming conventions for crosstool-NG
2009-10-12 19:31:50 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
2fea2229c9
docs: fix chapter spacing
2009-10-12 19:25:41 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
a83479174b
docs: get rid of any reference to the now long-gone svn repository
2009-10-10 13:12:28 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
632d59babd
docs: move the "contributing" section to overview.txt
2009-10-10 12:55:17 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
3902827e9f
docs: configure no longer accepts --with-contrib
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It's been a while that configure does not recognise --with-contrib.
Applying contibutions is to be done manually, using patch.
2009-10-10 11:24:31 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
1e1f247acc
doc: update documentation, mostly eye-candy
2009-10-03 17:23:17 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
443f51a2dc
libc/glibc: fix building for seemingly native toolchains
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Build glibc with -O2 as a fix/workaround to building
seemingly-native toolchains.
See:
- docs/overview.txt
- docs/known-issues.txt
- http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2009-09/msg00055.html
2009-10-02 22:10:38 +02:00
Blair Burtan
e3cc9d1b27
docs: add a tutorial on how to build a toolchain on Mac OS-X
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Add a step-bystep tutorial to build a cross-toolchain on Mac OS-X.
2009-09-07 23:12:25 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
33144a6438
docs: typo in overview.txt
2009-09-06 10:45:31 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
d811941c9a
config: choose whether to use the shell or the C wrapper
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Offer a config choice on whether to isntall the script wrapper, or
the compiled C wrapper. Update docs/overview.txt accordingly.
2009-08-30 00:27:12 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
7628fa7a08
overview: fix table of content, fix the hacker's way
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table of content: add missing entry
the hacker's way: no need to "make install"
2009-08-30 00:30:45 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
a393a72f5f
[populate] enhance documentation
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This patch adds explanations on how
populate works internally.
2009-06-14 21:44:33 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN
bdf80a8db9
[populate] fix documentation
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This patch fixes the existing documentation:
- document -l and -L
- use syntax more in line with the help entry
2009-06-14 21:43:55 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN"
683d230777
Add a bit more explanations on the meaning of OBSOLETE and EXPERIMENTAL.
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-------- diffstat follows --------
/trunk/config/global/ct-behave.in | 22 13 9 0 +++++++++++++---------
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 8 6 2 0 ++++++--
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
2009-04-20 21:30:25 +00:00
Robert P. J. DAY"
6511a7787f
Fix obvious "DESTDIR" misspelling.
2009-04-17 20:45:47 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
bf830991a6
Document failure to build the uClibc cross-ldd under Cygwin as a known issue.
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/trunk/docs/known-issues.txt | 16 15 1 0 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
2009-03-30 21:06:55 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
4462fcd995
Know issues: document the extract and/or patch steps failure under cygwin.
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/trunk/docs/known-issues.txt | 16 16 0 0 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
2009-03-03 17:39:51 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
b8b7843bea
Get rid of all stuff related to building a /delivery' traball:
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- building a delivery tarball has long been broken (since crostool-Ng is installable)
- get rid of implied do_print_filename, that can be mis-leading now tarballs can not be built
/trunk/scripts/build/kernel/bare-metal.sh | 4 0 4 0 ----
/trunk/scripts/build/kernel/linux.sh | 4 0 4 0 ----
/trunk/scripts/build/tools/000-template.sh | 11 0 11 0 -----------
/trunk/scripts/build/tools/100-libelf.sh | 4 0 4 0 ----
/trunk/scripts/build/tools/200-sstrip.sh | 11 1 10 0 +----------
/trunk/scripts/build/binutils.sh | 4 0 4 0 ----
/trunk/scripts/build/cc/gcc.sh | 5 0 5 0 -----
/trunk/scripts/build/debug/000-template.sh | 11 0 11 0 -----------
/trunk/scripts/build/debug/100-dmalloc.sh | 4 0 4 0 ----
/trunk/scripts/build/debug/400-ltrace.sh | 4 0 4 0 ----
/trunk/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh | 7 0 7 0 -------
/trunk/scripts/build/debug/500-strace.sh | 4 0 4 0 ----
/trunk/scripts/build/debug/200-duma.sh | 4 0 4 0 ----
/trunk/scripts/build/libc/none.sh | 5 0 5 0 -----
/trunk/scripts/build/libc/glibc.sh | 10 0 10 0 ----------
/trunk/scripts/build/libc/uClibc.sh | 6 0 6 0 ------
/trunk/scripts/build/libc/eglibc.sh | 10 0 10 0 ----------
/trunk/scripts/build/gmp.sh | 6 0 6 0 ------
/trunk/scripts/build/mpfr.sh | 6 0 6 0 ------
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 9 0 9 0 ---------
20 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 128 deletions(-)
2009-01-03 21:11:41 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
4cfd308098
Move toolchain-config.in from tools/ to scripts/
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Small documentation fix.
/trunk/scripts/crosstool.sh | 2 1 1 0 +-
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 1 1 0 0 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
2008-12-11 18:21:18 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
488f5d1e76
Move addToolsVersion.sh from tools/ to scripts/
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/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 2 1 1 0 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
2008-12-11 18:12:04 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
f15b8ade72
Get rid of the local-test in Makefile.
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/trunk/Makefile.in | 30 19 11 0 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 25 13 12 0 +++++++++++++------------
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
2008-11-16 22:19:57 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
81f9d4d73e
Honor the DESTDIR variable to install out-of-place (Eg. for packaging).
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/trunk/configure | 10 10 0 0 +++++++++
/trunk/Makefile.in | 62 36 26 0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 12 12 0 0 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
2008-11-16 21:55:46 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
301fbac58e
Merge 1199 and 1200 from /devel/YEM-build_host_target_cleanup:
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- Allow hand-indentation in the kconfig prompts
- Start documenting the kconfig deviations from the kernel's version
/trunk/kconfig/menu.c | 10 8 2 0 ++++++++--
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 6 6 0 0 ++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
2008-11-13 17:55:16 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
f9f70c5ad6
Do not autodetect 64-bit archs, have them tell be 'select'-ing ARCH_64 in the configuration.
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/trunk/scripts/crosstool.sh | 12 5 7 0 +++++-------
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 6 6 0 0 ++++++
/trunk/config/target.in | 4 4 0 0 ++++
/trunk/config/arch/x86_64.in | 1 1 0 0 +
/trunk/config/arch/ia64.in | 1 1 0 0 +
5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
2008-11-07 08:09:42 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
ea9b9ea07b
Remove regtest actions, introduce build-all actions:
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- regtest was not easy to use
- one may wish to simply build all samples
- introduce a per-sample automatic build
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 19 14 5 0 ++++++++---
/trunk/samples/samples.mk | 92 49 43 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
/trunk/ct-ng.comp | 8 5 3 0 +++--
3 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
2008-10-31 18:31:01 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
1c625d676c
Push the calculation of the tuple's kernel part down to kernel's build scripts:
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- update the kernel script's API with the function CT_DiKernelTupleValues
- update doc accordingly (also with the architecture change, missing in the previous commit)
- small clean-up in the main script, remove useless test
/trunk/scripts/build/kernel/bare-metal.sh | 5 5 0 0 +++++
/trunk/scripts/build/kernel/linux.sh | 5 5 0 0 +++++
/trunk/scripts/crosstool.sh | 31 13 18 0 +++++++++++++------------------
/trunk/scripts/functions | 15 8 7 0 ++++++++-------
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 13 9 4 0 +++++++++----
5 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
2008-10-23 13:45:48 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
4a1f2bf705
Remove CT_BROKEN.
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Only one component is actually BROKEN (libelf), make it depend on EXPERIMENTAL, but state BROKEN in the prompt.
ltrace (which depends on libelf) is now marked as EXPERIMENTAL, with the reference to the BROKEN libelf in the help entry.
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 6 0 6 0 ------
/trunk/config/debug/ltrace.in | 7 4 3 0 ++++---
/trunk/config/global/ct-behave.in | 8 0 8 0 --------
/trunk/config/tools/libelf.in | 5 3 2 0 +++--
4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
2008-10-09 19:17:49 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
b8d189b296
Separate the architecture config file and function script.
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/trunk/kconfig/kconfig.mk | 46 23 23 0 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
/trunk/scripts/crosstool.sh | 2 1 1 0 +-
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 28 11 17 0 +++++++++++-----------------
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
2008-10-05 15:32:00 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
229aa8fe54
Update the internals documentation, adding the kernel API.
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Update the internals architecture documentation.
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 75 67 8 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
2008-10-03 20:00:36 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
16c6cc994f
Save the toolchain configuration to its own file, as an auto-extracting shell script:
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- get rid of the 'extractconfig' action, it was cumbersome to use, and badly documented,
- introduce a skeleton for the config script,
- update auto-completion,
- document the config script.
/trunk/kconfig/kconfig.mk | 9 2 7 0 ++-------
/trunk/scripts/crosstool.sh | 6 5 1 0 +++++-
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 21 9 12 0 +++++++++------------
/trunk/tools/toolchain-config.in | 8 8 0 0 ++++++++
/trunk/ct-ng.comp | 2 1 1 0 +-
5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
2008-10-01 18:10:40 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
cce0841d96
Rework the way EXPERIMENTAL kernels are marked as such.
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/trunk/kconfig/kconfig.mk | 51 25 26 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 47 47 0 0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
/trunk/config/kernel/bare-metal.in | 1 1 0 0 +
3 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
2008-09-29 20:19:45 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
8cf6201cbd
Had a new known issue: ccache will break the build because we're sym-linking to have our own compiler for host and build systems, but that screws up ccache finding the real compiler.
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There is no fix, so the only way to inform the users is to document it: remove ccache.
/trunk/docs/known-issues.txt | 25 21 4 0 +++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
2008-09-28 21:35:44 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN"
b1459a8862
Update docs/overview.txt with the script shell fragment that defines bash completion.
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/trunk/docs/overview.txt | 14 14 0 0 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
2008-09-05 10:57:06 +00:00