Bug#463353: madwifi-source: cannot build with 2.6.24-1-686

[Kel Modderman]

On Thursday 31 January 2008 15:59:08 Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| Kel Modderman, Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:11:35PM +1000 |=-
> > On Thursday 31 January 2008 12:57:51 Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686'
> > > /usr/src/modules/madwifi/scripts/get_arch.mk:44: *** ARCH mismatch: supplied "x86", determined "i386".  Stop.
> > 
> > Noted, thanks for your report.
> 
> For your information, similar errors happens on amd64:
> 
>   /usr/src/modules/madwifi/scripts/get_arch.mk:44: *** ARCH mismatch:
>   supplied "x86", determined "x86_64".  Stop.
> 
> I noted the following in linux-2.6 (2.6.24~rc8-1~experimental.1)
> changelog that may be relevant:
> 
>   [ Bastian Blank ]
>   * [amd64, i386]: Set kernel architecture to x86.
>   * [i386]: Remove linux-libc-dev arch override.
> 

Thank you for this very useful information.

Even when this obstacle is passed, the current madwifi version will fail to
build. I've been working on getting the madwifi.org team to work towards a
release in the coming week that would not fail to compile against 2.6.24.

Am also thinking of packaging the SVN trunk variant of madwifi, possibly for
experimental, or possibly for unstable (instead of the upcoming "stable"
upstream release). I'd be interested in hearing the opinion of any developer
who is interested in uploading a new madwifi package to the archive in the
next few days.

Thanks, Kel.