Install problem (Cross compile AVR32)

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 03 November 2008 05:39:08 Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> Jeremy Bowen <jeremy.bowen at pertronic.co.nz> wrote:
> > Sorry I wasn't clear enough. I meant that I'll never have a problem with
> > a properly configured toolchain that wouldn't also be a problem with
> > buildroot. Buildroot won't magically solve problems with broken packages.
>
> Magic or not, one thing buildroot does is update the config.sub and
> config.guess scripts distributed with the package to non-ancient
> versions which know about avr32. That tends to solve a lot of problems.
>
> But it's certainly not something that can't be done manually, of
> course. Most distributions seem to carry reasonably up-to-date versions
> of config.sub and config.guess in /usr/share/misc or somewhere else.
> You just need to remember to update them for almost every package you
> compile.

landley at driftwood:~$ ls /usr/share/misc
magic  magic.mgc  magic.mime  magic.mime.mgc  pci.ids  usb.ids
landley at driftwood:~$ find /usr -name config.guess
landley at driftwood:~$

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.  (An obscure distro, I know...)

Rob