On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2014, Jonas Gorski wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >   does openwrt have a make target equivalent to OE's "bitbake -c
>> > fetch" so that i can force a fetch/download of all necessary source
>> > without kicking off the actual build?
>>
>> "make download", although it might not catch everything; a few
>> packages download stuff during the build using different mechanisms.
>
>   let me back up a bit regarding make targets and documentation. where
> should i have looked for documentation on that and other useful make
> targets? if i go to the wiki documentation page:
>
>  http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/start
>
> and search specifically on "make download" (assuming that i knew that
> was the target i wanted), this is all i get:
>
>  http://wiki.openwrt.org/?do=search&id=%22make+download%22
>
> none of which really corresponds to official documentation for that
> target. short of examining all the .mk files in openwrt, where does
> one learn about targets like that? a search for the string "make
> download" in the entire docs/ turns up no matches.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/ is the community maintained documentation.
You are welcome to add/update the documentation there.

>   another question about possible make targets -- i "git clone"d the
> openwrt repo, and used the ramips_mt7620a config file as my starting
> point, at which point the build took massively long only because i
> failed to appreciate that the config file built all sorts of optional
> packages i could probably have lived without.
>
>   is there a make target equivalent to "make firmware-only"? i'm sure
> there must be, i just don't see it. and if there is, is it possible
> there's a "make download" variation that downloads only that which is
> required for the firmware? (equivalently, is there some sort of make
> option that deactivates all packages selected with "=m"?)

What you are looking for is ignoring the config, and starting from
scratch without an existing .config, then selecting your
target/profile with make menuconfig. Then there will be no =m packages
selected.

>
>   last question regarding docs -- are there online versions of the
> tex docs in the docs/ directory? that would be nice so it didn't
> require one to install all the tex-related packages just to format
> those doc files.

These are horribly outdated, just ignore that they exist. You likely
end up with a non working system if you follow these.


Jonas
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