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  1. This directory contains various useful scripts and tools for working
  2. with Buildroot. You need not add this directory in your PATH to use
  3. any of those tools, but you may do so if you want.
  4. brmake
  5. a script that can be run instead of make, that prepends the date in
  6. front of each line, redirects all of the build output to a file
  7. ("'br.log' in the current directory), and just outputs the Buildroot
  8. messages (those lines starting with >>>) on stdout.
  9. Do not run this script for interactive configuration (e.g. menuconfig)
  10. or on an unconfigured directory. The output is redirected so you will see
  11. nothing.
  12. check-package
  13. a script that checks the coding style of a package's Config.in and
  14. .mk files, and also tests them for various types of typoes.
  15. get-developpers
  16. a script to return the list of people interested in a specific part
  17. of Buildroot, so they can be Cc:ed on a mail. Accepts a patch as
  18. input, a package name or and architecture name.
  19. scancpan
  20. a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a CPAN module
  21. description.
  22. scanpypi
  23. a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a PyPI package
  24. description.
  25. size-stat-compare
  26. a script to compare the rootfs size between two differnt Buildroot
  27. configurations. This can be used to identify the size impact of
  28. a specific option, or of a set of specific options, or an update
  29. to a newer Buildroot version...
  30. test-pkg
  31. a script that tests a specific package against a set of various
  32. toolchains, with the goal to detect toolchain-related dependencies
  33. (wchar, threads...)