From 81adfb13aad5ad7596f0b694ee40641a30cf7016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:50:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] document configure related build system changes SVN-Revision: 6375 --- docs/build.tex | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/build.tex b/docs/build.tex index 1335c8132974..553ddb16e0b4 100644 --- a/docs/build.tex +++ b/docs/build.tex @@ -307,7 +307,9 @@ directly as the Nth argument to \texttt{BuildPackage}. \item \texttt{MAINTAINER} (optional) \\ Who to contact concerning the package \item \texttt{DEPENDS} (optional) \\ - Which packages must be built/installed before this package. To reference a dependency defined in the same Makefile, use \textit{}. If defined as an external package, use \textit{+}. For a kernel version dependency use: \textit{@LINUX\_2\_} + Which packages must be built/installed before this package. To reference a dependency defined in the + same Makefile, use \textit{}. If defined as an external package, use + \textit{+}. For a kernel version dependency use: \textit{@LINUX\_2\_} \end{itemize} \textbf{\texttt{Package/\textit{}/conffiles} (optional):} \\ @@ -321,7 +323,17 @@ directly as the Nth argument to \texttt{BuildPackage}. You can leave this undefined if the source doesn't use configure or has a normal config script, otherwise you can put your own commands here or use "\texttt{\$(call Build/Configure/Default,\textit{})}" as above to - pass in additional arguments for a standard configure script. The first list of arguments will be passed to the configure script like that: $--arg 1$ $--arg 2$. The second list contains arguments that should be defined before running the configure script such as autoconf or compiler specific variables. + pass in additional arguments for a standard configure script. The first list of arguments will be passed + to the configure script like that: \texttt{--arg 1} \texttt{--arg 2}. The second list contains arguments that should be + defined before running the configure script such as autoconf or compiler specific variables. + + To make it easier to modify the configure command line, you can either extend or completely override the following variables: + \begin{itemize} + \item \texttt{CONFIGURE\_ARGS} \\ + Contains all command line arguments (format: \texttt{--arg 1} \texttt{--arg 2}) + \item \texttt{CONFIGURE\_VARS} \\ + Contains all environment variables that are passed to ./configure (format: \texttt{NAME="value"}) + \end{itemize} \textbf{\texttt{Build/Compile} (optional):} \\ How to compile the source; in most cases you should leave this undefined. -- 2.30.2