Re: [Madwifi-users] Compilation out-of-box on 3 platforms

[Kel M. <ke...@tp...>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I have committed some trivial fixes to madwifi that allow it to be
>compiled out-of-box on i386, x86_64 and powerpc platform by simply
>running make without arguments.
>
>TOOLPREFIX now defaults to the CROSS_COMPILE setting in the kernel,
>which is empty by default.  TOOLPREFIX is no longer set in
>hal/public/*.inc files.
>
>TARGET is calculated correctly for i386, x86_64 and PowerPC platforms.
>The kernel version is taken from version.h, which is much more accurate
>than the kernel Makefile.
>
>The build is no longer using the source directory, which allows
>compiling against the kernel development packages provided by Linux
>distributions.
>
>_BIG_ENDIAN was redefined on PowerPC - it's fixed now.
>
>  
>
Nice work Pavel! This means madwifi will be easy for the average Joe to 
install.

Thanks, Kel.