| Summary: | net-wireless/kismet - bcm43xx support was not built error | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | indarios |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Christian Heim (RETIRED) <phreak> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | latexer, matt.palermo |
| Priority: | High | Keywords: | InVCS |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
indarios
2007-01-01 22:31:03 UTC
Actually *NO* wireless support was built. I re-emerged it last night only to find that. I looked watched the ./configure script exectute and watched it complain that it couldn't find the kernel header file "linux/wireless.h". I then tried running a ./configure on the package myself (meaning NOT using portage to do it) and found that the configure script ran just fine. I nano'ed the .ebuild and found this:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src_compile() {
# the configure script only honors '--disable-foo'
local config="--disable-gpsmap"
if ! use ncurses; then
config="${config} --disable-curses --disable-panel"
fi
# need to set CC and CXX for FEATURES=confcache, bug #129479
CC=$(tc-getCC) CXX=$(tc-getCXX) \
econf \
${config} \
--with-linuxheaders="${KV_DIR}"/include || die "econf failed"
einfo "You may safely ignore the warning about the missing .depend file"
emake dep || die "emake dep failed"
emake || die "emake failed"
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I found that if I took out the "--with-linuxheaders" part of it, it configured 100% find. Here is the way I edited it:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
src_compile() {
# the configure script only honors '--disable-foo'
local config="--disable-gpsmap"
if ! use ncurses; then
config="${config} --disable-curses --disable-panel"
fi
# need to set CC and CXX for FEATURES=confcache, bug #129479
CC=$(tc-getCC) CXX=$(tc-getCXX) \
econf \
${config} || die "econf failed"
einfo "You may safely ignore the warning about the missing .depend file"
emake dep || die "emake dep failed"
emake || die "emake failed"
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(notice I ONLY took out the header file check)
Now, I'm no Code-ist, and have never written an .ebuild so I have no idea what this edit could break down-the-line (nor do I have any idea why it failed to begin with since the file is indeed here on my system), but, it works 100% fine here on my machine (Orinoco chip).
I also use the 2.6.19 (suspend2) kernel.
The file is there:
# ls -l /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-suspend2-r1/include/linux/wireless.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41219 Jan 8 07:49 /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-suspend2-r1/include/linux/wireless.h
Anyway, I'm not sure what the problem is, but that's waht I did to work around it.
I am getting the same error while trying to use kismet with madwifi on amd64, 2.6.19-suspend2. The problem is that ./configure cannot be used with --with-linuxheaders=/usr/src/linux/include, but with --with-linuxheaders=/usr/src/linux
It seems as a bug in ebuild. The line
--with-linuxheaders="${KV_DIR}"/include || die "econf failed"
should be
--with-linuxheaders="${KV_DIR}" || die "econf failed"
Removing the line worked form me, Ill have to try changing the line to --with-linuxheaders="${KV_DIR}" || die "econf failed" next.
(In reply to comment #3) > Removing the line worked form me, Ill have to try changing the line to > --with-linuxheaders="${KV_DIR}" || die "econf failed" next. Yup, works for me too. Commiting it to the tree as I write this. Thanks for the report. |
