[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] docs/manual: document FOO_GIT_SUBMODULE

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Jul 3 08:33:09 UTC 2016


Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
---
 docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
index de8aca2..2d7e677 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
@@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ 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_GIT_SUBMODULES+, when +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD=git+, will create
+  an archive with the git submodules in the repository.
+  Note that we try not to use such git submodules when they contain
+  bundled librraries, in which case we prefer to use those libraries
+  from their own package.
+
 * +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
-- 
2.7.4




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