[Buildroot] busybox 1.18.3 to 1.18.4

[Buildroot] busybox 1.18.3 to 1.18.4

[Charles Krinke]

I am just finishing a project with buildroot-2011.03 and need to
change one thing before the end and that is the version of busybox
from 1.18.3 to 1.18.4.

Make xconfig does not have a 1.18.4 option for this version and
editing .config doesnt work. That is, the next make changes the
busybox version back from 1.18.4 to 1.18.3.

Can someone please tell me which other file would need to be changed
so that I can change the project from busybox 1.18.3 to 1.18.4.

-- 
Charles Krinke

[Buildroot] busybox 1.18.3 to 1.18.4

[Luca Ceresoli]

Hi Charles,

Charles Krinke wrote:
> I am just finishing a project with buildroot-2011.03 and need to
> change one thing before the end and that is the version of busybox
> from 1.18.3 to 1.18.4.
>
> Make xconfig does not have a 1.18.4 option for this version and
> editing .config doesnt work. That is, the next make changes the
> busybox version back from 1.18.4 to 1.18.3.
>
> Can someone please tell me which other file would need to be changed
> so that I can change the project from busybox 1.18.3 to 1.18.4.
>

In file package/busybox/Config.in there's a section looking like this:

config BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION
         string
         default "1.15.3"        if BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION_1_15_X
         default "1.16.2"        if BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION_1_16_X
         default "1.17.4"        if BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION_1_17_X
         default "1.18.3"        if BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION_1_18_X

You can change "1.18.3" to "1.18.4" (or, maybe better, "1.18.5", as it is a
bugfix release).

Then run make menuconfig again and exit saving for the .config to be 
updated.

Luca

[Buildroot] busybox 1.18.3 to 1.18.4

[Charles Krinke]

Thank you kindly, Luca, that appears to do the trick. The place I went
wrong was to not run xconfig or menuconfig after changing the .config,
but you straightened me out.

Charles

On 6/8/12, Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> Charles Krinke wrote:
>> I am just finishing a project with buildroot-2011.03 and need to
>> change one thing before the end and that is the version of busybox
>> from 1.18.3 to 1.18.4.
>>
>> Make xconfig does not have a 1.18.4 option for this version and
>> editing .config doesnt work. That is, the next make changes the
>> busybox version back from 1.18.4 to 1.18.3.
>>
>> Can someone please tell me which other file would need to be changed
>> so that I can change the project from busybox 1.18.3 to 1.18.4.
>>
>
> In file package/busybox/Config.in there's a section looking like this:
>
> config BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION
>          string
>          default "1.15.3"        if BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION_1_15_X
>          default "1.16.2"        if BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION_1_16_X
>          default "1.17.4"        if BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION_1_17_X
>          default "1.18.3"        if BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION_1_18_X
>
> You can change "1.18.3" to "1.18.4" (or, maybe better, "1.18.5", as it is a
> bugfix release).
>
> Then run make menuconfig again and exit saving for the .config to be
> updated.
>
> Luca
>
>


-- 
Charles Krinke