Bug#398241: madwifi-source: Build fails on powerpc-be-elf (PPC32) with message "TARGET powerpc-elf is invalid"

[Ian MacDonald]

Package: madwifi-source
Version: 1:0.9.2+r1784.20061027-1
Severity: important

The following is from the buildlog after executing #m-a a-i madwifi

dh_testroot
dh_clean
/usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/modules/madwifi clean \
        KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.18-1-powerpc/build
	KERNELRELEASE=2.6.18-1-powerpc
	KERNELCONF=/lib/modules/2.6.18-1-powerpc/build/.config
	ATH_RATE=ath_rate/sample
	make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi'
	Makefile.inc:199: *** TARGET powerpc-elf is invalid, valid
	targets are: alpha-elf ap30 ap43 ap51 ap61 arm9-le-thumb-elf
	armv4-be-elf armv4-le-elf i386-elf mips1-be-elf mips1-le-elf
	mips-be-elf mipsisa32-be-elf mipsisa32-le-elf mips-le-elf
	powerpc-be-eabi powerpc-be-elf powerpc-le-eabi sh4-le-elf
	sparc64-be-elf sparc-be-elf x86_64-elf xscale-be-elf
	xscale-le-elf.  Stop.

Looking at the differences between the 1704 (which built fine) and 1784 builds I noted the following changes:
The /scripts/get_arch_target.sh was replaced with /scripts/get_arch.sh

In here there was previously some logic to add the "endianness" to the TARGET; i.e.
change TARGET=powerpc-elf to TARGET=powerpc-be-elf. This logic seems to
have been purged, or possibly moved elsewhere.

Note that the debian patch07 to get_arch_target.sh (which no longer
exists after the rename) was in the changelog. Not sure if that was
still being patched, but if so needs to be updated.

The workaround for PPC32-be users familiar with the module building
process is to just to drop a
TARGET=powerpc-be-elf into the /usr/src/modules/madwifi/Makefile.inc and
rebuild madwifi.tar.bz2, and re-execute m-a a-i madwifi.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages madwifi-source depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.3-6    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debhelper                     5.0.41     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  module-assistant              0.10.7     tool to make module package creati

madwifi-source recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information