nerves-project/nerves_fw_loaders

A collection of firmware loaders for boards with internal storage

nerves_fw_loaders's Issues

Fails to build on ubuntu 22

Environment

• Elixir version (elixir -v): 1.15.6
• Nerves environment: (mix nerves.env --info)
• Additional information about your host, target hardware or environment that
  may help
  Ubuntu 22.04

Current behavior

Error when building:

>>> host-m4 1.4.18 Building
…
In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:328,
                 from ./signal.h:52,
                 from c-stack.c:49:
c-stack.c:55:26: error: missing binary operator before token "("
   55 | #elif HAVE_LIBSIGSEGV && SIGSTKSZ < 16384

It seems to be due to what is discussed here: openwrt/openwrt#9055

It sounds like a patch or updating the version for the package to 1.4.19 would resolve the issue.

Expected behavior

Builds fine.

Create a bundler script for making it easy to include install.fw files

The idea would be that you could give the bundler script a loader.fw and an install.fw, and it would make a loader_bundle.fw that you could send to people for making USB thumb drives. You could also create a .img file that people with balenaEtcher could use.

Here's one way of making a bundler:

1. Update the loader's fwup.conf files to specify an on-resource block for install.fw. There won't be a resource, so it normally won't do anything.

The rest is in the bundler script:

1. Unzip the loader.fw
2. Update the meta.conf to have an install.fw resource at the top.
3. Run fwup to create a new .fw file using the updated meta.conf