From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:03:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document the BUILDONLY option
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X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fopenwrt.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=6fb293c05be0f09e99381904b4e4d3995ff8a0c6

document the BUILDONLY option

SVN-Revision: 14010
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diff --git a/docs/build.tex b/docs/build.tex
index 82e7b0b8df..493be127c6 100644
--- a/docs/build.tex
+++ b/docs/build.tex
@@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ directly as the Nth argument to \texttt{BuildPackage}.
             Which packages must be built/installed before this package. To reference a dependency defined in the
 			same Makefile, use \textit{<dependency name>}. If defined as an external package, use 
 			\textit{+<dependency name>}. For a kernel version dependency use: \textit{@LINUX\_2\_<minor version>}
+		\item \texttt{BUILDONLY} (optional) \\
+			Set this option to 1 if you do NOT want your package to appear in menuconfig.
+			This is useful for packages which are only used as build dependencies.
     \end{itemize}
 
 \textbf{\texttt{Package/\textit{<name>}/conffiles} (optional):} \\