[Buildroot] PACKAGE_USERS does not work

[Jörg Krause]

On 07/11/2014 07:28 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Arnout, All,
>
> On 2014-07-11 19:00 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
>> On 11/07/14 15:23, Jörg Krause wrote:
>>> unfortunatly there is no error message. As I mentioned, I can build upmpdcli
>>> with success. Here is the contents of my package/upmpdcli/upmpdcli.mk:
>>>
>>>      ################################################################################
>>>      #
>>>      # upmpdcli
>>>      #
>>>      ################################################################################
>>>
>>>      UPMPDCLI_VERSION = 0.7.1
>>>      UPMPDCLI_SITE = http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/downloads
>>>      UPMPDCLI_LICENSE = GPLv2
>>>      UPMPDCLI_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
>>>      UPMPDCLI_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
>>>      UPMPDCLI_INSTALL_TARGET = YES
>>>      UPMPDCLI_AUTORECONF = YES
>>>      UPMPDCLI_CONF_OPT = --prefix=/usr
>>>      UPMPDCLI_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
>>>      UPMPDCLI_DEPENDENCIES += libupnp
>>>      UPMPDCLI_DEPENDENCIES += libmpdclient
>>>
>>>      define UPMPDCLI_USERS
>>>          upmpdcli -1 upmpdcli -1 * - - -
>>>      endef
>>>
>>>      define UPMPDCLI_INSTALL_INIT_SYSV
>>>          $(INSTALL) -m 0755 package/upmpdcli/S99upmpdcli $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/init.d/
>>>      endef
>>>
>>>      $(eval $(autotools-package))
>>>
>>> I would expect that upmpdcli will be added to shadow, passwd, and group in
>>> output/target/etc, but it isn't. I think it has something to do with
>>> PACKAGES_USERS in package/pkg-generic.mk. If i rebuild avahi, I can see that
>>> make adds the entry of AVAHI_USERS to PACKAGES_USERS, but for my build of
>>> upmpdcli it doesn't. I also tried another custom package.
>>
>>   Is it possible that you ran 'make upmpdcli' and don't have BR2_PACKAGE_UPMPDCLI
>> set?
> Yes, that's what I suspect, too; hence the reason I asked Jörg to share
> the exact commands he used to do the build.

OMG, you're all right! I added the packages to package/Config.in once, 
but after some inexperienced handling of git stash and apply they where 
missing now.

So to answer your question: I used make upmpdcli-rebuild all.

Thank you all for the help! I will prepare a patch for adding this 
packet soon.

Best regards
Jörg Krause

>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>