From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vicente Olivert Riera Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:58:55 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] [autobuild.buildroot.net] Build results for 2014-12-10 In-Reply-To: <20141211175508.GQ2440@tarshish> References: <20141211073016.EFDC7100E7A@stock.ovh.net> <5489D6E2.1010002@imgtec.com> <20141211175508.GQ2440@tarshish> Message-ID: <5489DB5F.2000101@imgtec.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Baruch Siac, On 12/11/2014 05:55 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: > Hi Vicente, > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 05:39:46PM +0000, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote: >> On 12/11/2014 07:30 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >>> mipsel | kismet-2013-03-R1b | NOK | http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/965a3e345dc0a432043b72581bff7d33561fbe0c/ >> >> This failure is caused because in the configure script Kismet tries to >> do a compile test to check for pcap_open_live(). This works for shared >> builds because is very common the host machine has installed the shared >> library of libpcap. But when building for static, is very unlikely >> having the static library of libpcap installed on the host, so that >> compilation test (which runs in the host machine) fails. >> >> Given that kismet depends on libpcap, we can ensure that the pcap >> library installed on the target will be fine, so we can workaround this >> error by removing the compile tests (there are three of them) from the >> configure script. And that would be a patch to fix Kismet when >> cross-compiling. >> >> However, after doing that, we will face more problems. The first one >> will be one related of a missing "-pthread" option: >> >> /br/output/host/usr/mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/lib/libnl-3.a(socket.o): >> In function `release_local_port': >> socket.c:(.text+0x120): undefined reference to `pthread_rwlock_wrlock' >> [...] >> >> We could fix that just by adding this to the kismet.mk file: >> >> KISMET_CONF_ENV = LIBS="-pthread" >> >> But that's not enough. We will face more problems like this one: >> >> /br/output/host/usr/mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/lib/libpcap.a(pcap-canusb-linux.o): >> In function `canusb_close': >> pcap-canusb-linux.c:(.text+0xec): undefined reference to `libusb_close' >> >> So, at this point I don't know if it would be better to just disable >> kismet for static builds. What do you think? > > Use the pcap-config utility. See for example the packages bustle and wireshark > among the others. oh, that's interesting. Thanks! I have to go now, but I will have a look at it tomorrow, unless someone fix it first :P Cheers, -- Vicente Olivert Riera Graduate Software Engineer, MIPS Platforms Imagination Technologies Limited t: +44 (0)113 2429814 www.imgtec.com