Buildroot internals

The Buildroot is a very powerful piece of software, but is easy to understand if you take the time.

Top-Level Items
If you list the contents of your gumstix-buildroot directory, you'll see (at least) the following items:


 * : Where the Buildroot system stashes downloaded files, such as source code archives.
 * : Contains information about every available software package.
 * : Contains information on different target architectures the Buildroot can target (though we use the ARM variant exclusively).
 * : Contains information for the cross-compilation toolchain.

If you've built the Buildroot already, you'll likely see the following working directories and output files:
 * : Where the final compiled files from all software packages go.
 * : The final root filesystem image.
 * : Where the compiled files for the cross-compilation toolchain go.
 * and  : Fresh copies of the U-Boot bootloader, in raw binary and JTAG s-record format, respectively.