<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Yann,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 2:30 PM Yann E. MORIN <<a href="mailto:yann.morin.1998@free.fr">yann.morin.1998@free.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> FWIW, This doesn't generate any output.<br>
<br>
Probably you were doing an out-of-tree build?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Nope, it's an in-tree build, configured and already built. And it's this recent:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> $ git describe <br>2020.02-1207-ga8da12f0f9<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">...</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> .. which does generate +/- the desired output of _everything_, but it also results in this in the shell:<br>
>   make: support/dependencies/check-host-.sh: Command not found<br>
<br>
Yes, this is a side-effect of not actually runing the commands: some<br>
</blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ACK -- not a personal concern; just a minor wart.</div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">...</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Nowadays, the cannonical way to extract information out of the internals<br>
of Buildroot is geared toward json-formatted output.<br>
<br>
If you want information from packages, you should use (and extend if<br>
needed) from your post-scripts:<br>
<br>
    make --no-print-directory -C $(BASE_DIR) show-info<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That's a good point and I shall look into it again as to whether that'll provide all the metadata that we need, since we need the similar concerning the firmware and kernel components, which are classified differently than the packages.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you're curious, here's the current (fresh!) code:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/TimesysGit/vigiles-buildroot">https://github.com/TimesysGit/vigiles-buildroot</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I apologize for the shameless promotion of a semi-commercial product. And, I must say it ain't my best work. That said, the point of it is to gather specific metadata about the various components of an built system, generate a json manifest and submit for a CVE check of known vulnerabilities (that's our money-maker). YMMV. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks for the reply. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Patrick</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div>