Re: [Gumstix-users] Build problem with modules contributed by hostap

[Michael T. <mik...@ap...>]

Also forgot, you need to copy or rename toolchain/gdb/6.2/ as 
toolchain/gdb/6.2.1/.  6.2 is not an option in the build menus, and 
6.2.1 is.

Thanks,

Mike

Craig Hughes wrote:
> On Mar 2, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Michael Taylor wrote:
>
>> Craig,
>>
>> When I add hostap to the build, it fails.  It seems that hostap is 
>> trying to rebuild "modules" target before "linux" target has even 
>> been compiled.  Can we add a dependency such that hostap requires the 
>> kernel to be built first, before attempting to add the modules?  I'm 
>> not sure that is the perfect fix for the problem, but "make linux" 
>> followed by "make hostap" worked.
>
> I'll add that dependency -- it's a bit messy though since it makes a 
> packages/ thing have a dependency on a targets/ thing; but then I'm 
> confused about why linux is under targets/ in the first place, so I 
> won't worry about it too much.  I suspect it'll move to packages/ 
> before long.
>
>> Also, can we add a configuration option to the buildroot .config 
>> which allows one to specify an alternate .config file for the linux 
>> kernel like you have for busybox?  That would help us to reduce the 
>> number of patched/modified buildroot files we have to maintain and 
>> reduce the complexity of merging.  There's no clear place in a clean 
>> buildroot tree to add our own custom kernel config file.
>
> You can put your .config in 
> targets/devices/Gumstix/basix-connex/linux.config -- I do like that 
> way busybox does things -- I'll add something like that for both 
> uclibc and for the linux kernel.
>
> C
>
>
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