[Buildroot] Shell-Weirdness

[Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsd.net>]

The problem is the avr32 patch against GCC.

It took me the past 3 days with Jacmet to track it down.

900-avr32-atmel.1.3.2.patch   <= THAT patch.

I'm still investigating how to fix it.

-N

On Thu, 2008-03-20@13:05 -0400, John Voltz wrote:
> Hi Christof,
> 
> I have also seen some very weird stuff happen with the latest
> buildroot running in a qemu virtual machine. Things like mount
> requiring -v to work properly and command line parameters not being
> passed and other really strange stuff. I wish someone with a little
> more experience would try building for x86 and see how it goes. I had
> nothing but trouble and finally gave up. Everything works pretty well
> on my AVR32 target, so it imust be something specific to x86 or maybe
> qemu causing the problems.
> 
> John
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Christof Klaiber
> <christof.klaiber@merath-maschinen.de> wrote:
>         I built buildroot from svn for i486 and try to run it in qemu.
>         
>         ~/qemu/bin/qemu -hda binaries/uclibc/rootfs.i686.ext2 -kernel
>         project_build_i686/uclibc/linux-2.6.24.3/arch/i386/boot/bzImage -append
>         root=/dev/hda
>         
>         After booting the kernel, it complains about not
>         finding /etc/init.d/rcS
>         - where did it go? It used to be there in earlier times.
>         
>         Then I can activate a shell by hitting Enter.
>         
>         The shell works fine, but whenever I try to enter a command
>         which
>         contains a "-", I get an error message or the shell blocks.
>         
>         e.g.
>         
>         / # ls -l
>         -> terminal blocks
>         
>         somtimes I can use <ctrl>-c to escape, sometimes I have to
>         quit qemu.
>         
>         Any suggestions, why this can happen?
>         
>         Regards,
>          Christof
>         
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