[PATCH] mbimcli: report IP configuration on connect

[Aleksander Morgado]

On May 7, 2015 5:03 PM, "Joe" <joe.on.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 07 May 2015 12:28:22 Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Joe <joe.on.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, I've done... after created my local libmbim dir:
> > >
> > > git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libmbim/libmbim
> >
> > > However I was'nt able to obtain a tarball like those in stable repo...
> > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libmbim/
> > >
> > > How have you create them starting from git branch?  Could you let me
know?
> >
> > I usually do this:
> >
> > $ .NOCONFIGURE=1 /autogen.sh
> > $ ./configure
> > $ make
> > $ make distcheck
> >
> > The distcheck phase will run tests and if all goes well, create a
tarball.
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> I've tried to follow your instructions, but ther are some little troubles:
>
> $ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
> $ ./configure
> $ make
>
> 1- make command seems to generate empty manpages for:
> mbimcli.1
> mbim-network.1
> ---
>
> Anyway, let's go on:
>
> $ make distcheck
>
> 2- but it returns an error:
>
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/root/build/git/libmbim/docs/reference/libmbim-glib'
> *** gtk-doc must be installed and enabled in order to make dist
> ---
>
> this error is solved adding "--enable-gtk-doc" at configure time.
>
> So we finally have:
>
> $ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
> $ ./configure --enable-gtk-doc
> $ make
> $ make distcheck
>
> And we obtain a tarball "tar.xz".
> But it doesn't contains manpages for mbimcli and mbim-network,
> in fact there are but empty...
>
> Where's the mistake?
>

Ah, true about the gtk-doc thing, I forgot about that.

For man pages you need to have help2man installed (iirc). We should make
this a hard dep when building a dist tarball, as with gtk-doc.

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> > > But why not to add two otpions more to mbimcli, something like:
> > >
> > > --configure-net-interface
> > >
> > > --use-peer-dns (if one want to overwrite his resolv.conf...)
> > >
> > > And automagically obtain our interface up and configured with
> > > our IP and our routing table properly setted to use our new wwan.
> > >
> > > I think it is a good chioce to let the user pass those options
> > > instead of introduce this feature by default, because one is free
> > > to use DHCP if prefers and if is his dongle supports it.
> > >
> > > What do you think about?
> >
> > That is a good thing, yes. I've been meaning to do this already in
> > e.g. mbim-network, but doing it via mbimcli for the static IP config
> > would also be a good thing I guess.
>
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>
> Please to read you agree!
> Hope my simple user hints could be help you developers somehow!  :)
>
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