Commit f4ea4b98 authored Dec 08, 2013 by Peter Korsgaard

Config.in: Add a menu around BR2_EXTERNAL configuration options



To make it clear to the user that these options are external to Buildroot
and no support is provided by the Buildroot community.

With this, there's no need to recommend people to their options inside
a menu, so remove that from the documentation.

Kconfig nicely allows us to hide the menu completely if BR2_EXTERNAL isn't
used, so make use of that to not confuse people. It would be nice if we
could add some help text to explain the BR2_EXTERNAL stuff as well, but
that isn't supported on menus :/

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

parent 2233f5f8

Config.in

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		@@ -493,4 +493,9 @@ source "package/Config.in.host"

		source "Config.in.legacy"

		menu "User-provided options"
		depends on BR2_EXTERNAL != "support/dummy-external"

		source "$BR2_EXTERNAL/Config.in"

		endmenu

docs/manual/customize-outside-br.txt

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		@@ -89,12 +89,8 @@ The main usage of this is to store package recipes. The recommended
		like:
		+
		------
		menu "<somecompany> packages"

		source "$BR2_EXTERNAL/package/package1/Config.in"
		source "$BR2_EXTERNAL/package/package2/Config.in"

		endmenu
		------
		+
		Then, have a +BR2_EXTERNAL/external.mk+ file that looks like: