Hi all...
I'm trying to build openwrt on an amd64-based system running Gentoo. Currently the build fails with a segmentation fault in the mksquashfs call, due to a known bug in the 2.0-alpha version of squashfs.
Fortunately Gentoo also includes an ebuild of mksquashfs (squashfs-tools), which is based on squashfs-2.0 (non-alpha) and seems to work fine on amd64 (it was specifically modified to support amd64).
Armed with this info, I changed make/squashfs.mk to install squashfs-2.0.tar.gz instead of squashfs-2.0-ALPHA.tar.gz, the build works all the way through, and I can mount the resulting root_fs_mipsel with no problems (but please note that I have not yet tried to load the image into my wrt).
Assuming I can get it to work, what's the likelihood of OpenWRT moving to squashfs-2.0 as it's official version? The patch is trivial:
% cvs diff squashfsroot.mk
Index: squashfsroot.mk
===================================================================
RCS file: /openwrt/buildroot/make/squashfsroot.mk,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -r1.3 squashfsroot.mk
7c7
< SQUASHFS_SOURCE=squashfs2.0-ALPHA.tar.gz
---
> SQUASHFS_SOURCE=squashfs2.0.tar.gz
%As near as I can tell, 2.0 should be entirely backwards-compatible with 2.0-ALPHA, but I'm by no means an expert.
thither