Re: [blfs-dev] wpa_supplicant

On Monday 20 February 2012 03:56:42 pm Matt Burgess wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 17:31 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 7:37:53 -0700
> >
> > Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > None from me.  In fact, if you want/need a wireless-newbie guinea-pig
> > > I'll volunteer to proof-read and test your instructions.  I've been
> > > spoiled by Windows and NetworkManager thus far, but need to get
> > > wireless set up on my LFS box now.
> >
> > Jolly good. So no pressure then ;) I've put a draft up at
> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/BLFS/wpa_supplicant.html
> > It's at the point where I can't see what's wrong with it and it won't
> > get any better until it's in the book and people start emailing the
> > lists with problems/issues.
>
> So far, I've only been able to try to sort through the dependency
> hierarchy in order to get this to build.  Here are my notes:
>
> Required Dependencies:
>
> libnl-3
>
> Optional dependencies:
>
> One of openssl, gnutls or nss (looking at the Makefile, these are
> optional, as it includes an internal tls lib that could be used instead.
> That said, we may want to promote one of openssl/gnutls as required).
>
> pcap (if CONFIG_L2_PACKET is defined in .config)
>
> pcsc (if CONFIG_PCSC is defined in .config)
>
> dbus (if CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS or CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW is defined
> in .config. If putting those in, you probably want
> CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_INTRO as well)
>
> You may want to consider adding CONFIG_READLINE as well - it's installed
> by LFS, so we may as well use it, right?
>
> Do we also want to use CONFIG_IPV6?  It brings in no additional
> dependencies and makes us ipv6-ready (or at least less anti-ipv6!).
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt.

  depends=('openssl' 'dbus-core>=1.2.4' 'readline>=6.0' 'libnl')

  patch -Np1 -i "$srcdir/hostap_allow-linking-with-libnl-3.2.patch"
  cd ${pkgname}
  # Required by NetworkManager 0.8.995
  patch -Np2 -i "$srcdir/dbus.patch"
  cp "${srcdir}/config" ./.config
  sed -i 's@/usr/[EMAIL PROTECTED](PREFIX)@g' Makefile
  make


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