buildroot: fakerroot on cygwin. Ch 2 - The Kernel

[Alessio Massaro]

Milrith,

Thanks for the precious info below. With a few worksrounds for the remaining
problems (gcc 4.1 Makefiles and the uclibc locale problem) I'm finally going
somewhere with buildroot on cygwin.

My next thing was being able to compile the kernel on windows. Did you
succeed in that too?

I've read around and I tried to patch the kconfig build, but I couldn't get
past lots of undefined ncourses symbols during linking. I tried to link
against any ncourses-related lib I could think of, but no success. Any idea?

cherio
-alessio

> -----Original Message-----
> From: uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org [mailto:uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org] 
> Sent: 20 April 2006 17:56
> To: uclibc at uclibc.org
> Subject: Re: buildroot: fakerroot on cygwin
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am also using buildroot under cygwin. I think fakeroot 
> really can't be made to work under cygwin. What I did is 
> disable fakeroot in the target makefile 
> (target/ext2/ext2root.mk), by removing the fakeroot targets:
> 
> $(EXT2_BASE): host-fakeroot makedevs genext2fs
> becomes:
> $(EXT2_BASE): makedevs genext2fs
> 
> and not calling fakeroot in the other commands:
> 
> instead of things like:
> $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/fakeroot \
>                 -i $(STAGING_DIR)/_fakeroot.$(EXT2_TARGET) \
>                 -s $(STAGING_DIR)/_fakeroot.$(EXT2_TARGET) -- \
>             $(GENEXT2_DIR)/genext2fs \
>                 -d $(TARGET_DIR) \
>                 $(EXT2_OPTS) \
>                 $(EXT2_BASE)
> juste keep:
>             $(GENEXT2_DIR)/genext2fs \
>                 -d $(TARGET_DIR) \
>                 $(EXT2_OPTS) \
>                 $(EXT2_BASE)
> 
> "chown -R root:root $(TARGET_DIR)" won't really work too with 
> cygwin as there is no root user on cygwin. In my case it was 
> not a problem, but it is a bit dirty. With these changes I 
> can have a working file system image.
> 
> Maybe some people using buildroot on Windows have some solutions?
> Would a patch making the use of fakeroot optional be accepted?
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Milrith