[OpenWrt-Devel] just tripped over defect #14697

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Felix Fietkau wrote:

> On 2014-10-08 21:05, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> >
> >> On 2014-10-08 20:44, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On 2014-10-08 19:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >   tried a "make V=s DUMP=1" and encountered precisely this bug:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/14697
> >> >> >
> >> >> > this is on a fully-updated, fedora rawhide system for which all my
> >> >> > non-DUMP openwrt makes have been working pretty well so far.
> >> >
> >> >> This is not a bug - overriding a random internal build system
> >> >> variable on the command line isn't exactly a good idea. :) Where did
> >> >> you get the idea of putting DUMP=1 on the command line?
> >> >
> >> >   it's mentioned in the old kamikaze documentation here:
> >> >
> >> > https://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/docs/openwrt.html#x1-490002.1.5
> >> >
> >> > and an admittedly ancient openwrt users mailing list post here:
> >> >
> >> > https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-users/2008-May/000316.html
> >
> >> Ah okay, so you just took a small part of that command without
> >> checking the context. By the way, if you use the DUMP=1 command as
> >> described in that old document, it still works.
> >
> >   fair enough ... it's just not clear from that doc what part of the
> > context is actually *required*.
> It's a specific command for a specific use (checking why a particular
> package does not show up in menuconfig), not something that's in any way
> meant to be run globally.
>
> It says:
>
> If you find your package doesn’t show up in menuconfig, try the
> following command to see if you get the correct description:
>
>     TOPDIR=$PWD make -C package/<name> DUMP=1 V=99
>
> Which part of this is unclear, and how could we change the wording to
> make it more clear?

  no, that was my mistake in generalizing inappropriately, unaware of
how specific that command had to be. but i'm not sure there's value in
updating that document since it clearly refers to the "kamikaze"
release, so a lot of people are going to ignore it anyway, no?

rday

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