[Buildroot] linux: why is vmlinux only available for mips?

[Daniele Salvatore Albano <info@daccii.it>]

Il 15/07/2011 11:34, Thomas De Schampheleire ha scritto:
> This works fine in the context of buildroot. However, I need to access
> these files from a non-buildroot context (external makefiles/scripts)
> and so the variable BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION is not known.
>
> Thomas

If you're using *sh scripts, you can just do something like
. /PATH/TO/BUILDROOT/.config

to access buildroot config variables so you can use that variable

If you're using make file i don't know, but there is a way to do it too, 
sure :)

In the end, if you're using anithing else you can try to parse using 
regular expressions (needs delimiters and/or backslashes around quotes)
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION="?([a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+)"?

or cat, grep and cut
cat .config | grep BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION | cut -d"\"" -f2


Best Regards,
Daniele

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