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Hi all.
As mentionned in this tutorial http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=31794#p31794 , to create packages, you create a Makefile for it specifying a few variables and the buildroot-ng tree should take it from there.
But, do I absolutely have to make my package sources be downloaded to be built under buildroot-ng or can I put them somewhere in the buildroot-ng tree and somehow convince it to look for them there?
Thanks!
Stanislas
There's no requirement that the sources have to be downloaded, and indeed there are a few packages already in OpenWrt that include sources in the packages directory. All you need to do is define your Build/Prepare rule to extract or copy the sources to $(PKG_BUILD_DIR); see the mtd package for an example.
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