PTXdist ======= Necessary Packages ------------------ In order to build ptxdist, you need this archive: ptxdist-.tgz Extract this archive into some build directory. Installation ------------ To install PTXdist, just run ./configure --prefix= to configure the packet, then make to build everything and make install to install it. When you start using PTXdist, make sure your $PATH environment variable points to /bin, because that's where the ptxdist frontend program is being installed to. For developers who want to work with git versions of PTXdist it is only necessary to run "./autogen.sh && ./configure && make" and set the PATH variable to the bin/ directory inside the PTXdist tree. Quickstart ---------- Read the "How to become a PTXdist Guru" guide to get an idea how PTXdist works. This document can be found here: http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist/appnotes/OSELAS.BSP-Pengutronix-Generic-arm-Quickstart.pdf Idea ---- PTXdist is a tool which can be used to generate a root tree for all kinds of Linux systems. It was written with embedded systems in mind, but there is no reason why you can't use it to configure your firewall, router or whatever dedicated "device" comes to your mind. The job works like this: you run 'ptxdist menuconfig' and "ptxdist platformconfig", configure what you need. Run 'ptxdist go' and you'll find a root tree in /root/. Voila. All magic necessary to do these things in a cross enviroment are written into "recipies", living in rules/*.make, and config menues in rules/*.in. Directory Layout ---------------- These files and directories are supposed to be in an empty project directory: configs/ project specific configurations (optional) patches/ project specific patches, overwrites the generic ones from PTXdist projectroot/ put files here which are to be copied over to the target's root directory, like for example etc files, scripts, ... Note that the copying has to be done explicitly by some project specific rule file. ptxconfig .config file to configure the userland for your project. platformconfig .config file to configure the platform specific part of your project. rules/ contains project specific rules src -> ... link to point to your directory containing tarball files for the packets. Additionally some other directories are being built when you run "ptxdist go" or other start other build targets. /build-host/ build directory for host tools /build-cross/ build directory for cross tools /build-target/ build directory for target tools /images/ 'ptxdist images' creates tarballs and filesystem images in this directory. /sysroot-target/ target related libs and headerfiles are going to this dir /sysroot-cross/ target related tools, but must run on host are going to this dir /sysroot-host/ host related tools are going to this dir /root/ root filesystem for the target /state/ state files (show in which state packages currently are during the compilation) For more details look at the output of 'ptxdist --help' or see the PTXdist manual. Bugs ---- - search for FIXMEs - see TODO For documentation please refer: ------------------------------- http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist/documentation_en.html For Patch Tagging please refer: ------------------------------- http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/