buildroot and X.org compile problem: "

[Sascha Juch]

Hello Allan,

Thanks a lot for the explanation - it compiles fine now :)

Greetings,
Sascha.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan Clark [mailto:allanc at chickenandporn.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 5:36 PM
> To: Sascha Juch
> Cc: uClibc at uclibc.org
> Subject: Re: buildroot and X.org compile problem: "
> 
> Sascha Juch wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I installed buildroot and tried to compile it - first try without 
> > modifications to the packages to be compiled and anything went fine.
> > Now, that I have selected to also include X.org into the compile 
> > process it throws the following error message:
> >
> > make[5]: Entering directory
> > 
> `/home/sascha/buildroot/build_i386/xc/programs/xterm'/home/sas
> cha/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/bin/i386-linux-uclibc-gcc 
> > -Os -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef   -I. 
> > -I../../exports/include -I../../exports/include
> > -I../../exports/include/freetype2
> > -I../../exports/include/freetype2/config 
> -I../../exports/include/X11  
> > -I../.. -I../../exports/include   -Dlinux -D__i386__ 
> > -D_POSIX_SOURCE                             -D_BSD_SOURCE 
> > -D_GNU_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE  -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO      
> > -DSCROLLBAR_RIGHT -DOPT_WIDE_CHARS -DOPT_LUIT_PROG -DOPT_256_COLORS 
> > -DXRENDERFONT -DXFREE86_FT2 -DPROJECTROOT=/usr/X11R6     -c -o 
> > resize.o resize.c
> >
> > 
> /home/sascha/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/bin/i386-linux-u
> clibc-gcc 
> > -Os -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef   -I. 
> > -I../../exports/include -I../../exports/include
> > -I../../exports/include/freetype2
> > -I../../exports/include/freetype2/config 
> -I../../exports/include/X11  
> > -I../.. -I../../exports/include   -Dlinux -D__i386__ 
> > -D_POSIX_SOURCE                             -D_BSD_SOURCE 
> > -D_GNU_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE  -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO      
> > -DSCROLLBAR_RIGHT -DOPT_WIDE_CHARS -DOPT_LUIT_PROG -DOPT_256_COLORS 
> > -DXRENDERFONT -DXFREE86_FT2 -DPROJECTROOT=/usr/X11R6     -c -o 
> > xstrings.o xstrings.c
> >
> > rm -f resize
> > 
> /home/sascha/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/bin/i386-linux-u
> clibc-gcc 
> > -o resize -Os -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef     
> > -L../../exports/lib   resize.o xstrings.o  
> > 
> -L/home/sascha/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/i386-linux-ucl
> ibc/lib    
> > -lncurses
> >
> > 
> /home/sascha/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/bin-ccache/../li
> b/gcc/i386-linux-uclibc/3.4.2/../../../../i386-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: 
> > cannot find -lncurses
> >
> Sascha, you need to build ncurses with the buildroot/cross 
> build first, then build Xorg.
> 
> It's not obvious, but the buildroot is building without using 
> the additional things you've installed for your host system.  
> Those things
> -- such as ncurses -- give your host system the ability to do 
> ncurses et al.  They are (I assume) i386/glibc.  Although 
> buildroot is capable of cross-compiling something that is a 
> different architecture, you're doing an i386/uClibc build.  
> Nevertheless, you still need to build ncurses inside 
> buildroot to install the library in the right subdirectory so 
> that it will be found during the link phase.  This is a 
> problem my (recently former) company's customers see, and the 
> sole reason I send them to buildroot -- missing libraries, 
> and the fact that buildroot will do the right thing.
> 
> try adding ncurses in the "packages" section of "make 
> menuconfig", then "make ncurses", then your existing build.  
> Later, you'll want to add ncurses as a dependency of Xorg.
> 
> (I'm guessing on these make menuconfig option and make target 
> due to the pattern of buildroot)
> 
> Allan
>