Re: busybox-1.2.1 fails

[Mustafa Yuecel <yuecelm@ee.ethz.ch>]

Mohammed Amine SAYA wrote:
> Mohammed Amine SAYA wrote:
>> | mv: cannot overwrite directory 
>> `/home/users/asaya/Work/OpenEmbedded/OpenEmbedded-Dev1-mnt028/build/tmp/work/arm-linux/busybox-1.2.1-r1/image/busybox/bin'
>> | mv: cannot overwrite directory 
>> `/home/users/asaya/Work/OpenEmbedded/OpenEmbedded-Dev1-mnt028/build/tmp/work/arm-linux/busybox-1.2.1-r1/image/busybox/sbin'
>> | mv: cannot overwrite directory 
>> `/home/users/asaya/Work/OpenEmbedded/OpenEmbedded-Dev1-mnt028/build/tmp/work/arm-linux/busybox-1.2.1-r1/image/busybox/usr'
>>>
>>> Cannot overwrite directory?
>>> Sounds like a permission problem.
>>> Did you build as root once?
>>>   
>> No
>>   
>>> Try to manually rm -rf
>>> /home/users/asaya/Work/OpenEmbedded/OpenEmbedded-Dev1-mnt028/build/tmp/work/arm-linux/busybox-1.2.1-r1/image
>>>     
>> It worked, I removed it the image directory.
>> I used to build opie successfully with the old openembedded database 
>> (until monotone 0.25) and bitbake 1.3.X.
>> I don't know what's happening. I ls -l almost all busybox directories in 
>> $HOME/Work/OpenEmbedded/OpenEmbedded-Dev1-mnt028/build/tmp/work/arm-linux/busybox-1.2.1-r1 
>> and everything
>> seems to belong to me with the right mode.
>>   
> It turns out that this line inside do_install function in 
> busybox_1.2.1.bb file is causing the trouble :
> mv ${D}${base_bindir} ${D}${base_sbindir} ${D}${prefix} ${D}/busybox/
> 
> I replaced "mv" with "cp -a" and it works, does anyone object to that or 
> have a better fix ?

I have the same problem. I think that the installation routine of
busybox was slightly changed. The bin, sbin and usr directories already
exists in the busybox directory, so the above mv command will fail...