From 02f0878078a037c4c76ab1e478dad67ce422a148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Yann E. MORIN" Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 10:33:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.30.2