From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Samuelsson Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:51:12 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Select MTD before EXT2/CRAMFS/SQUASHFS arebuilt References: <1169591688.5361.7.camel@elrond.sweden.atmel.com><20070124000746.GA17761@codepoet.org><053601c73f56$016879f0$01c4af0a@atmel.com> <20070124225753.GD28221@aon.at> Message-ID: <02a001c74013$6ad21e60$01c4af0a@atmel.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>> Nak. There are a great many situations where people use ext2 >>> and/or cramfs and/or squashfs without wanting to also use MTD... >>> I happen to use all of them without wanting MTD at various times. >>> >>> -Erik >> >> Hmm, >> >> The intention is, that if ext2/squashfs/cramfs etc is selected, >> you ensure you build the MTD utilities for the *host*. > > What specific failure do you see? > There are no mkfs.jffs2 application on the host, so it fails. > > Since you seem to use cramfs, may i ask you to look if these patches > are ok? http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=512 > http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=1027 >> I only use ext2 and jffs2 but this seemed to be a generic problem. >> $ mkfs.ext2 etc. >> >> Not that you put the MTD utilities into the root file system. >> How do I do what I intended then? >> (I hope building the host tools is not inconvenient). > > I do not want to download nor build a package that i do not need.. How can you create an ext2/cramfs/squashfs if you have no application on your host that takes a directory and generates the fs???? Best Regards, Ulf Samuelsson ulf at atmel.com GSM: +46 (706) 22 44 57 Tel: +46 (8) 441 54 22 Fax: +46 (8) 441 54 29 Mail: Box 2033 174 02 Sundbyberg Visit: Kavalleriv?gen 24 174 58 Sundbyberg' Sweden