docs/manual/quickstart.txt

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22 for the original curses-based configurator, or
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28 for the new curses-based configurator, or
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34 for the Qt-based configurator, or
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40 for the GTK-based configurator.
46 specifically the xref:requirement-optional[optional requirements]
55 read by the top-level Makefile.
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63 By default, Buildroot does not support top-level parallel build, so
64 running +make -jN+ is not necessary. There is however experimental
65 support for top-level parallel build, see
66 xref:top-level-parallel-build[].
70 * download source files (as required);
71 * configure, build and install the cross-compilation toolchain, or
82   filesystem images) are stored. These are the files you need to put
93   Buildroot, including the cross-compilation toolchain. The latter
95   the headers and libraries of all user-space packages that provide
98   it contains a lot of development files, unstripped binaries and
100   development files are used to compile libraries and applications for
107   the target: everything needed is present except the device files in
115   root. Compared to +staging/+, +target/+ contains only the files and
117   development files (headers, etc.) are not present, the binaries are
125 xref:make-tips[].