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authorYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>2016-10-14 16:39:19 +0200
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>2016-10-16 13:01:02 +0200
commita71e311df62505bf69b74e9f16b43a5f91bb4623 (patch)
tree229fc661f7e71143cbcf523532bd736f8a342546 /support
parenta88718a952762a6a14bb1e4c87739b17a657746a (diff)
docs/manual: add appendix to convert old br2-external trees
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr> Cc: Julien CORJON <corjon.j@ecagroup.com> [Peter: slightly reword] Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'support')
-rwxr-xr-xsupport/scripts/br2-external7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/support/scripts/br2-external b/support/scripts/br2-external
index 21d735163..281a0847b 100755
--- a/support/scripts/br2-external
+++ b/support/scripts/br2-external
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ set -e
declare BR2_NAME
declare BR2_EXT
+# URL to manual for help in converting old br2-external trees.
+# Escape '#' so that make does not consider it a comment.
+MANUAL_URL='https://buildroot.org/manual/manual.html\#br2-external-converting'
+
main() {
local OPT OPTARG
local br2_ext ofile ofmt
@@ -70,7 +74,8 @@ do_validate() {
error "'%s': permission denied\n" "${br2_ext}"
fi
if [ ! -f "${br2_ext}/external.desc" ]; then
- error "'%s': does not have a name (in 'external.desc')\n" "${br2_ext}"
+ error "'%s': does not have a name (in 'external.desc'). See %s\n" \
+ "${br2_ext}" "${MANUAL_URL}"
fi
br2_name="$(sed -r -e '/^name: +(.*)$/!d; s//\1/' "${br2_ext}/external.desc")"
if [ -z "${br2_name}" ]; then