Commit 62803be8 authored by Luca Ceresoli's avatar Luca Ceresoli Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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docs/manual: document <PKG>_STRIP_COMPONENTS 



Signed-off-by: default avatarLuca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: default avatarArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent 73b9a5ee

docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt

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@@ -303,6 +303,15 @@ 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_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

  "<pkg-name>-<pkg-version>", thus Buildroot passes

  --strip-components=1 to tar to remove it.

  For non-standard packages that don't have this component, or

  that have more than one leading component to strip, set this

  variable with the value to be passed to tar. Default: 1.



* +LIBFOO_DEPENDENCIES+ lists the dependencies (in terms of package

  name) that are required for the current target package to

  compile. These dependencies are guaranteed to be compiled and