Hi,

What exactly do I need to install to be able to build buildroot amongst other things? I'm using ubuntu 8.04. Everytime I try to run make menuconfig in buildroot I get a whole bunch of errors.

I have not installed anything so I'm guessing I need to install some files.

Thanks

From http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Buildroot_on_Ubuntu:
* build-essential - this installs a complete build environment
o This gets you all the necessary packages to build software, like gcc,autoconf,automake,libtool etc.
* openssl-dev (on Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10, libssl-dev is needed instead)
* libncurses-dev
* bison
* flex
* texinfo
* zlib1g-dev
* gettext
* autoconf

That being said, I just installed Buildroot on Hardy and it checks for the necessary packages at the start of the build, alerting you of any needed packages. If you're getting error messages further into the build, you may have other problems.

Alex

Hi,

Thanks that worked.

Now, is there a tutorial available somewhere for what everything in buildroot means? Like an idiots guide to buildroot, step by step ?

Thanks

To get a decent overview of how Buildroot works, you should definitely read this guide: http://buildroot.uclibc.org/buildroot.html

The closest thing to a step-by-step guide can be found on linux4sam.com here: http://www.linux4sam.org/twiki/bin/view ... /BuildRoot

You can also get help on the Buildroot mailing list.

Best,
Alex

Now I am running into this problem:

atd.c:498:2: error: #error "No mail command specified."
make[1]: *** [atd.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
parsetime.y:10: warning: ‘svnid’ defined but not used
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ra/Desktop/buildroot/build_arm/at-3.1.10'
make: *** [/home/ra/Desktop/buildroot/build_arm/at-3.1.10/at] Error 2

Then I installed various packages I don't even know what and now I get past that and get stuck here:

../avahi-common/.libs/libavahi-common.so: undefined reference to `libintl_bindtextdomain'
../avahi-common/.libs/libavahi-common.so: undefined reference to `libintl_dgettext'
../avahi-common/.libs/libavahi-common.so: undefined reference to `libintl_bind_textdomain_codeset'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [avahi-daemon] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ra/Desktop/buildroot/build_arm/avahi-0.6.22/avahi-daemon'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ra/Desktop/buildroot/build_arm/avahi-0.6.22'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ra/Desktop/buildroot/build_arm/avahi-0.6.22'
make: *** [/home/ra/Desktop/buildroot/build_arm/avahi-0.6.22/.compiled] Error 2

I just removed the AT package (among others like setserial, etc. etc) in buildroot.

I went in through "make menuconfig" to remove packages until I got it building, then I would add back in stuff that I thought I would need.

and removed a ton of stuff to get it to build. There are some stale links in the buildroot image to stuff over at Debian having to do with lockfiles as well. I'm not sure if there are bugs issued over at buildroot, but there are definitely a few.

HTH