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Rebuilt busybox::wget changes not showing. #105

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sarnobat opened this issue Nov 12, 2019 · 4 comments

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@sarnobat sarnobat commented Nov 12, 2019

(further to our conversation here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47557262/how-to-download-the-torvalds-linux-kernel-master-recompile-it-and-boot-it-wi/49349237?noredirect=1#comment103838604_49349237)

The entire ./build succeeds after I add a simple hello world printf statement in output/build/busybox-1.29.3/networking/wget.c::wget_main() (unlike when I was trying to do the same on the non-cheat version of buildroot which gives a segmentation fault).

However, when I run wget inside the VM I don't see any of my printf output (or modifications to the wget usage.h entry that I try).

I'm guessing that I don't understand linking or rebuilding properly. I thought it would be as simple as make busybox-rebuild linux-rebuild but that doesn't seem to be enough.

Can you help me get my changes to busybox's wget.c to be built and reflected in my running VM (in qemu)?

I really appreciate your help so far, and this repo is so valuable.
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@cirosantilli cirosantilli commented Nov 12, 2019

Hi sarnobat,

I think Buildroot uses per package timestamps to quickly decide if something needs to be rebuilt.

So when you want to rebuilt it, you must explicitly request it with the make PKG-rebuild target, so in this case I believe busybox-rebuild.

From this repo, you can do that with something like (untested):

./build-buildroot -- busybox-rebuild

linux-rebuild would only rebuild the Linux kernel which is in a package called linux I believe.

Note however that the cleaner solution is to keep your busybox source out of tree in a git submodule as done for most packages under submodules/, apply all per package Buildroot patches, and tell Buildroot to use it with BR2_EXTERNAL: https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#outside-br-custom
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@cirosantilli cirosantilli commented Nov 13, 2019

Said wrong, OVERRIDE_SRCDIR, not BR2_EXTERNAL.
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@sarnobat sarnobat commented Nov 13, 2019

Hey it works!!
You are some kind of Linux kernel god. I'm sure I'll have followup questions but this one is resolved. Thank you.
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@cirosantilli cirosantilli commented Nov 13, 2019

Great! I've just been doing a bit more Buildroot than any sane person should! :-) Closing as resolved.
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