From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:57:12 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] How to figure out what a package is? In-Reply-To: (Grant Edwards's message of "Fri\, 6 Nov 2009 17\:35\:12 +0000 \(UTC\)") References: Message-ID: <87zl6zv5vb.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Grant" == Grant Edwards writes: Hi, Grant> This sounds a bit stupid, but where do you find a description Grant> of what a given package is? Normally the help text should say so. Grant> I've got a list of packages supported by buildroot. Grant> How do I know what, for example, the package named "lite" is? By reading the help text of the package in 'make menuconfig' (and optionally visiting the URL): config BR2_PACKAGE_LITE bool "LiTE (toolbox engine)" depends on BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB help LiTE stands for LiTE is a Toolbox Engine. Its role is to facilitate the functions of DirectFB so that a toolbox could be written on top of DirectFB with less effort. As such LiTE has abstractions for the underlying graphics and event systems. See http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/LiTE:Architecture Is there anything in the above that isn't clear to you? -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard