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diff --git a/docs/build.tex b/docs/build.tex index c45b905040..730451ede6 100644 --- a/docs/build.tex +++ b/docs/build.tex @@ -342,6 +342,19 @@ directly as the Nth argument to \texttt{BuildPackage}. Contains all environment variables that are passed to the make command \end{itemize} +\textbf{\texttt{Build/InstallDev} (optional):} \\ + If your package provides a library that needs to be made available to other packages, + you can use the \texttt{Build/InstallDev} template to copy it into the staging directory + which is used to collect all files that other packages might depend on at build time. + When it is called by the build system, two parameters are passed to it. \texttt{\$(1)} points to + the regular staging dir, typically \texttt{staging\_dir/\textit{ARCH}}, while \texttt{\$(2)} points + to \texttt{staging\_dir/host}. The host staging dir is only used for binaries, which are + to be executed or linked against on the host and its \texttt{bin/} subdirectory is included + in the \texttt{PATH} which is passed down to the build system processes. + Please use \texttt{\$(1)} and \texttt{\$(2)} here instead of the build system variables + \texttt{\$(STAGING\_DIR)} and \texttt{\$(STAGING\_DIR\_HOST)}, because the build system behavior + when staging libraries might change in the future to include automatic uninstallation. + \textbf{\texttt{Package/\textit{<name>}/install}:} \\ A set of commands to copy files out of the compiled source and into the ipkg which is represented by the \texttt{\$(1)} directory. Note that there are currently |