[backfire] backport r27648

[openwrt-10.03/.git] / README

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 This is the buildsystem for the OpenWrt Linux distribution
-It is a modified uClibc buildroot2.
 
 Please use "make menuconfig" to configure your appreciated
 configuration for the toolchain and firmware.
 
+You need to have installed gcc, binutils, patch, bzip2, flex,
+make, gettext, pkg-config, unzip, libz-dev and libc headers.
+
 Simply running 'make' will build your firmware.
 It will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain, 
 the kernel and all choosen applications.
 
-You can use scripts/flash.sh for remotely updating your embedded system
-via tftp.
+You can use scripts/flashing/flash.sh for remotely updating your embedded
+system via tftp.
+
+The OpenWrt system is documented in docs/. You will need a LaTeX distribution
+and the tex4ht package to build the documentation. Type make -C docs/ to build it.
+
+Building your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux, BSD or MacOSX system.
+Cygwin will not be supported because of the lack of case sensitiveness.
 
-Be happy..
+Sunshine!
        Your OpenWrt Project
-       http://www.openwrt.org
+       http://openwrt.org