Commit 722b82f0 authored by Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)'s avatar Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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manual: restructure 'Adding packages' chapter 



The depends-on-vs-select part of the manual really deserves its own
section title (especially because it is referred to and the xref gets
a 'sinpara' in PDF if the section doesn't have a title). So restructure
the surrounding sections to reduce the section nesting depth.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: default avatarSamuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent 50b32848

docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt

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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ New subdirectories are discouraged, however. 




+Config.in+ file

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



Then, create a file named +Config.in+. This file will contain the

option descriptions related to our +libfoo+ software that will be used
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ source "package/libfoo/Config.in" 
--------------------------



[[depends-on-vs-select]]

Choosing +depends on+ or +select+

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



The +Config.in+ file of your package must also ensure that

dependencies are enabled. Typically, Buildroot uses the following

rules:
@@ -164,7 +167,7 @@ Further formatting details: see xref:writing-rules-config-in[the 
coding style].



The +.mk+ file

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



Finally, here's the hardest part. Create a file named +libfoo.mk+. It

describes how the package should be downloaded, configured, built,