From cc2cadd0826636952b2a903da07e7f5e2d599b42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxime Hadjinlian Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 11:40:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] manual: add documentation about DL_DIR And at the same time don't encourage use of BR2_DL_DIR Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian Acked-by: Yann E. MORIN Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt index 71e27b6722..12cf1605d6 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 +$(BR2_DL_DIR)+. + be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(DL_DIR)+. * +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ determines the method used to fetch or copy the package source code. In many cases, Buildroot guesses the method @@ -537,6 +537,9 @@ 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. + * +$(TARGET_CC)+, +$(TARGET_LD)+, etc. to get the target cross-compilation utilities -- 2.30.2