From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 08:33:09 +0000 (+0200) Subject: docs/manual: document FOO_GIT_SUBMODULE X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=02f0878078a037c4c76ab1e478dad67ce422a148;p=buildroot.git docs/manual: document FOO_GIT_SUBMODULE [Peter: fix typo as noticed by Samuel] Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Peter Korsgaard Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt index de8aca20b5..f18465b851 100644 --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt @@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : the package source code. Buildroot copies the contents of the source directory into the package's build directory. +* +LIBFOO_GIT_SUBMODULES+, when +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD=git+, will create + an archive with the git submodules in the repository. + Note that we try not to use such git submodules when they contain + bundled libraries, in which case we prefer to use those libraries + from their own package. + * +LIBFOO_STRIP_COMPONENTS+ is the number of leading components (directories) that tar must strip from file names on extraction. The tarball for most packages has one leading component named