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[Dan Pattison]

Hello,

I am using the post image script feature to compile and install various 
custom packages. In my shell and make files I want to make the ouput 
show the various stages of package installation like buildroot does with 
text that has a highlighted back ground. This helps in debugging to see 
where certain programs start their build process.

For instance, when the post-image script fires it outputs the line below 
with a highlighted back ground that is easy to spot.
 >>>   Executing post-image script board/ethertek/ws/post-build.sh

I tried the line below in my own post-build.sh, but get a command not 
found error.
$(call MESSAGE,"Building Package FOO");

Is it possible to make the call command above work in my own shell 
scripts that reside in the board folder? If yes, what do I include to 
make that work?

Thank you,

-- 
Dan Pattison
Ethertek Circuits

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[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Pattison <dan.pattison@ethertek.ca> writes:

 > Hello,
 > I am using the post image script feature to compile and install
 > various custom packages. In my shell and make files I want to make the
 > ouput show the various stages of package installation like buildroot
 > does with text that has a highlighted back ground. This helps in
 > debugging to see where certain programs start their build process.

 > For instance, when the post-image script fires it outputs the line
 > below with a highlighted back ground that is easy to spot.
 >>>> Executing post-image script board/ethertek/ws/post-build.sh

 > I tried the line below in my own post-build.sh, but get a command not
 > found error.
 > $(call MESSAGE,"Building Package FOO");

 > Is it possible to make the call command above work in my own shell
 > scripts that reside in the board folder? If yes, what do I include to
 > make that work?

Not really. MESSAGE is a make macro, so you cannot use it from a shell
script.

But you can take a look at the implementation in package/pkg-utils.mk
and create a similar shell function, something like:

MESSAGE() {
    tput smso
    echo ">>> $*"
    tput rmso
}

MESSAGE hello world

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

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[Dan Pattison]

On 6/5/2014 1:21 PM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Pattison <dan.pattison@ethertek.ca> writes:
>   > Hello,
>   > I am using the post image script feature to compile and install
>   > various custom packages. In my shell and make files I want to make the
>   > ouput show the various stages of package installation like buildroot
>   > does with text that has a highlighted back ground. This helps in
>   > debugging to see where certain programs start their build process.
>
>   > For instance, when the post-image script fires it outputs the line
>   > below with a highlighted back ground that is easy to spot.
>   >>>> Executing post-image script board/ethertek/ws/post-build.sh
>
>   > I tried the line below in my own post-build.sh, but get a command not
>   > found error.
>   > $(call MESSAGE,"Building Package FOO");
>
>   > Is it possible to make the call command above work in my own shell
>   > scripts that reside in the board folder? If yes, what do I include to
>   > make that work?
>
> Not really. MESSAGE is a make macro, so you cannot use it from a shell
> script.
>
> But you can take a look at the implementation in package/pkg-utils.mk
> and create a similar shell function, something like:
>
> MESSAGE() {
>      tput smso
>      echo ">>> $*"
>      tput rmso
> }
>
> MESSAGE hello world
>
Hello Peter,

Thanks for the reply. I will try that.

Dan Pattison
Ethertek Circuits

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[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Dan Pattison,

On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:27:24 -0700, Dan Pattison wrote:

> I am using the post image script feature to compile and install various 
> custom packages. In my shell and make files I want to make the ouput 

Why don't you create additional Buildroot packages instead? That would
be a lot more logical that doing this in a post-image script.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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[Dan Pattison]

On 6/5/2014 1:39 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Dan Pattison,
>
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:27:24 -0700, Dan Pattison wrote:
>
>> I am using the post image script feature to compile and install various
>> custom packages. In my shell and make files I want to make the ouput
> Why don't you create additional Buildroot packages instead? That would
> be a lot more logical that doing this in a post-image script.
>
> Thomas

Hello Thomas,

Thank you for the reply. I found the need to run some custom scripts 
just before the images are created to do various things like add a 
firmware build number file, tar up the /etc folder for use in a factory 
reset situation, and a few other product specific jobs. As it is doing 
each step, it's nice to get the highlighted output for debugging. For 
whatever reason, I started building some custom packages from the 
post-image script also. Peter showed me a way to do the highlight from 
my shell script by making a custom MESSAGE() function.

MESSAGE() {
     tput smso
     echo ">>> $*"
     tput rmso
}

MESSAGE hello world

Thanks,
Dan Pattison
EtherTek Circuits