I'm working with this Yocto/ Bitbake recipe for wpa_supplicant (v2.9) which is a bbappend for this recipe. I had significant difficulties getting the associated library (libwpa_client.so) included in the install process during my Yocto/ Poky build. Eventually I created my own bbappend which contained:
# Force build of library libwpa_client.so
do_configure_append() {
echo 'CONFIG_BUILD_WPA_CLIENT_SO=y' >> wpa_supplicant/.config
}
# Avoid QA errors:
INSANE_SKIP_${PN} += " ldflags"
INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP = "1"
INHIBIT_SYSROOT_STRIP = "1"
SOLIBS = ".so"
FILES_SOLIBSDEV = ""
# Force install of libwpa_client.so
do_install_append(){
install -d ${D}${libdir}
install -m 0644 ${S}/wpa_supplicant/libwpa_client.so ${D}${libdir}
}
Using the config option CONFIG_BUILD_WPA_CLIENT_SO=y failed to install the library so thats why I went with the do_install_append() method. I find it hard to believe this hasn't come up before for others so I think I'm missing something, I can't find similar hacks/ patches.
Can't someone point out if I'm missing something obvious?? There's a patch file for v2.10 which may be associated with this issue, but I think it's more an issue with the Makefile as the library file was successfully built for v2.9, just not populated to the final image.
If this isn't a waste of half a day perhaps this will help others.
Regards,
