wpa_supplicant 2.10: ignored build options

Sergey Matyukevich geomatsi at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 04:56:15 PST 2022


Hi Michael,

> Hi Sergey, all,
> 
> @Sergey: I put you on the list of recipients since you provided the version bump to buildroot.
> 
> Since hostapd 2.10 the wpa_supplicant build ignores the two options CONFIG_BUILD_WPA_CLIENT_SO and CONFIG_NO_WPA_PASSPHRASE.
> 
> This leads to the following build error in buildroot when BR2_PACKAGE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_WPA_CLIENT_SO is selected:
> 
>   /usr/bin/install: cannot stat '/buildroot/build/build/wpa_supplicant-2.10/wpa_supplicant/libwpa_client.so': No such file or directory
> 
> The Bug was probably introduced with commit [0] which reworked the .config parsing.
> The two mentioned options are now evaluated before the .config file is parsed an thus ignored.
> 
> I'm not familiar enough with the wpa_supplicant build to come up with a proper patch. But maybe someone is willing to take a look at this.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> [0] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/wpa_supplicant/Makefile?id=a41a29192e5d196444fc8859100762b04ff0d1c2

Thanks for heads-up ! Buildroot CI has already reported this problem:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/001981339f3b895ecd9208a747a0e47d07c9583a/

I plan take a look at hostapd/wpa_s failures over the weekend.

Regards,
Sergey



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