[uClibc]Kernel does not build with binary toolchain

Andi db5fx at afthd.tu-darmstadt.de
Thu Jun 5 06:51:18 UTC 2003


 Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org> wrote on 04.06.2003 19:18:

>On Wed Jun 04, 2003 at 09:04:37AM +0200, Andi wrote:
>> I got the same problem about a month ago and there are two issues:
>> 
>> 1. You definitely need gnu-zip . The busybox zip won't do the job 
>> compressing the kernel image at all. 
>> ( ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/gnu/gzip/ )
>
>Can you tell me specifically where it fails?
>Was it perhaps this line
>
>    gzip -f -9 < $tmppiggy > $tmppiggy.gz
>
>that caused busybox gzip to choke?

Yes, exactly. I tried to play with the switches of bb-gzip, but without 
luck. Since I have plenty of space on my harddisk, I installed gnu-gzip.
Sorry, I didn't investigate the issue any further.


Fröhlichen Gruß!
Mirthful regards!

Andreas Pabst



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