[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/9] ifupdown: new package

[Károly Kasza]

I don't know how should I propose a patch to a pending patch :)
So here's attached a patch file, to be put into the package/ifupdown
directory.

BR
Karoly

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Károly Kasza <kaszak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Gustavo, Arnout, all,
>
> Unfortunately this fails for me while building:
> First it complains about a non-existent "dpkg-architecture" program (I'm
> building on Debian x64 and it is not installed on my build machine by
> default) - then it fails arch.h no such file or directory - it is created
> with the $DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS variable, which is set by the above utility.
>
> This is the same perl script found in "dpkg" source 1.16.15 in the scripts
> sub directory (which is already used by start-stop-daemon). It is part of
> the dpkg-dev debian package in stable.
>
> I think, that this program is not needed by us, as we only target Linux,
> and dpkg-architecture is used to query 2 variables we are compiling for:
> - DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS which is always "linux" (I guess this could be hurd or
> netbsd, as Debian supports those kernels, not Buildroot though)
> - DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE which is <architecture>-linux-gnu
>
> Maybe add a small patch, that replaces all dpkg-architecture
> DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS queries to a "linux" constant, and the DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE
> query to a Buildroot specific macro which adds the target architecture?
>
> This call appears in:
> defn2c.pl - 5
> defn2man.pl - 5
> debian/rules - 41,43
> debian/testbuild - 3
>
> ---
>
> >>> ifupdown 0.7.49 Building
> ...BLAH...
> Can't exec "dpkg-architecture": No such file or directory at ./defn2c.pl
> line 5.
> Use of uninitialized value $DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS in substitution (s///) at ./
> defn2c.pl line 7.
> Use of uninitialized value $DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS in string eq at ./defn2c.pl
> line 33, <> line 2.
> ...BLAH...
> /home/scythe/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gcc
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -pipe -Os
>  -D'IFUPDOWN_VERSION="0.7.49"' -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -c -o link.o link.c
> sed -e '/^##ADDRESSFAM##$/r inet.man' -e '/^##ADDRESSFAM##$/r ipx.man' -e
> '/^##ADDRESSFAM##$/r inet6.man' -e '/^##ADDRESSFAM##$/r can.man' \
>              -e '/^##ADDRESSFAM##$/d' < interfaces.5.pre > interfaces.5
> meta.c:5:18: fatal error: arch.h: No such file or directory
>  #include "arch.h"
>                   ^
> compilation terminated.
> make[1]: *** [meta.o] Error 1
>
> ---
>
> Best regards,
> Karoly
>



-- 

Üdv,
KK
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