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Buildroot James L Henrickson 3 participants 3 messages Jan 29, 2007

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I downloaded BuildRoot according to the documentation, tried to jump ahead but failed, then went back to the documentation and found that a default build failed too. The problem was that the latest uclibc snapshot failed to build. I got over that by falling back to the uclibc.x.x.1 option instead. (This had worked when I tried to jump ahead, but my attempt to build for an i486 target then failed on some sort of missing kernel patch target.) OK, with this i686 build complete (after falling back to an earlier version of uclibc), I was unable to find a kernel to load onto my target. I didn't see this problem documented anywhere. How do I compile (or cross-compile, since my goal is to use BuildRoot as a cross-platform development tool if possible) a kernel image under BuildRoot? Is this outside the scope of BuildRoot? I just came over from OpenEmbedded because their support for uclibc seems to be deficient, and I didn't see any mention of kernel building in the BuildRoot docs. Any help would be appreciated.

Jim

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I downloaded BuildRoot according to the documentation, tried to jump ahead but failed, then went back to the documentation and found that a default build failed too. The problem was that the latest uclibc snapshot failed to build. I got over that by falling back to the uclibc.x.x.1 option instead. (This had worked when I tried to jump ahead, but my attempt to build for an i486 target then failed on some sort of missing kernel patch target.) OK, with this i686 build complete

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(after falling back to an earlier version of uclibc), I was unable to find a kernel to load onto my target. I didn't see this problem documented anywhere. How do I compile (or cross-compile, since my goal is to use BuildRoot as a cross-platform development tool if possible) a kernel image under BuildRoot? Is this outside the scope of BuildRoot? I just came over from OpenEmbedded because their support for uclibc seems to be deficient, and I didn't see any mention of kernel building in the BuildRoot docs. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello,

Sure you can !
In the sources, have a look in target/device
And in the configuration view go in "Board Support Options"

Philippe