[uClibc]Building build/root..

[Jean-Henri Duteau]

Erik,

I'm building a busybox/tinylogin/uClibc test environment.  After the 
success I had with your rootdisk, building microwindows and gpm and some 
other stuff, I thought I'd investigate buildroot.  I'm building one piece 
at a time and I've just finished building the minimum stuff -- 
uclibc_toolchain, busybox, uclibc, and tinylogin.  It works quite well and 
I'm impressed with all three of those tools.  Kudos to you (and the others 
who helped) for all the hard work.

I have some questions/comments about the whole procedure and I thought I 
might as well ask them publicly...

Why, as part of the uclib_toolchain, do we build a new binutils?  It seems 
to me that the existing binutils would probably do.  That was a long 
involved process that seemed slightly unnecessary to me.  BTW, binutils is 
up to 2.13 now.

Somewhere in the uClibc build, there's a 'ln' command that failed for me 
due to permission denied.  I'm building this on a 1GHz Duron, so the 
messages just scroll by.  It doesn't seem to have broken anything so I'm 
not sure what exactly it is.  I *think* it was trying to link libuClibc 
from the build/root directory to /lib and, since I was building as myself, 
that failed.

My other questions are more to do with busybox so I'll bring them up in 
that forum instead.

Again, thanks for the work you've done on this C library.

Sincerely,

Jean Duteau