source: clfs-embedded/BOOK/beyond/common/wireless_tools.xml@ 1dfe239

Last change on this file since 1dfe239 was 524795e, checked in by Andrew Bradford <andrew@…>, 10 years ago

Move all beyond packages into single beyond section

There's only a few now, putting them all together makes sense.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-beyond-wireless_tools" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="wireless_tools.html"?>
10
11 <title>Wireless Tools-&wireless_tools-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-beyond-wireless_tools">
14 <primary sortas="a-wireless_tools">wireless_tools</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>Wireless Tools is the reference implementation of tools supporting the
21 ability to manipulate the Wireless Extensions API supported by most wireless
22 LAN networking drivers.</para>
23
24 </sect2>
25
26 <sect2 role="installation">
27 <title>Installation of Wireless Tools</title>
28
29 <para os="a">Wireless Tools' <filename>Makefile</filename> contains
30 explicitly which <command>gcc</command>, <command>ar</command>, and
31 <command>ranlib</command> to use. Make sure the
32 <filename class="directory">${CLFS}/cross-tools</filename> versions of
33 these programs are used instead of the host's:</para>
34
35<screen><userinput>sed -i s/gcc/\$\{CLFS\_TARGET\}\-gcc/g Makefile
36sed -i s/\ ar/\ \$\{CLFS\_TARGET\}\-ar/g Makefile
37sed -i s/ranlib/\$\{CLFS\_TARGET\}\-ranlib/g Makefile</userinput></screen>
38
39 <para os="b">Compile the package:</para>
40
41 <note><para>There are options that can be passed to <command>make</command>
42 and <command>make install</command> that will reduce the size and
43 functionality of the Wireless Tools. See the Wireless Tools
44 <filename>INSTALL</filename> file for more information.</para></note>
45
46<screen><userinput>make PREFIX=${CLFS}/targetfs/usr</userinput></screen>
47
48 <para os="c">Install the package:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput>make install PREFIX=${CLFS}/targetfs/usr</userinput></screen>
51
52 </sect2>
53
54 <sect2 id="contents-wireless_tools" role="content">
55 <title>Contents of Wireless Tools</title>
56
57 <segmentedlist>
58 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
59 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
60
61 <seglistitem>
62 <seg>iwconfig, iwevent, iwgetid, iwlist,iwpriv, and iwspy</seg>
63 <seg>libiw.so</seg>
64 </seglistitem>
65 </segmentedlist>
66
67 </sect2>
68
69</sect1>
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