[uClibc]Building build/root..

[Erik Andersen]

On Sat Nov 16, 2002 at 11:36:15PM -0700, Jean-Henri Duteau wrote:
> 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.

Glad to help.

> 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.

I build binutils because it is needed to build a cross compiler,
and allows buildroot to target arm, mips, etc by just changing
the ARCH in the top level makefile.

>                                                           BTW, binutils is 
> up to 2.13 now.

I know.  binutils 2.13 generates buggy code on arm, and works
just fine for me, so I have not updated binutils.

> 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 

This is normal and expected.  If it were an error, I would have
made it abort the build.  That symlink is designed for use in a 
different sort of system.

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

No problem.

 -Erik

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