[Buildroot] Problems building for Olimex A13. A new user enquires ...

[Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>]

Hi Jerry,

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:40:42AM +0100, g4 at novadsp.com wrote:
> First off: Thanks for Buildroot. 
> 
> Second: Building on a Xubuntu 14.04 Virtual Box guest using Buildroot
> 2014-05-RC1
> 
> Thirdly: Please advise If there is a better place (to ask questions :))
> 
> I have set up a .config (attached if this helps)

Is it? I couldn't find one (and it really helps).

baruch

> which builds quite happily
> from scratch until the board specific u-boot. The u-boot URL has been
> changed to https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi.git.
> 
> This is possibly a slightly odd combination as I'm trying to build using a
> board-specific u-boot with the mainline kernel sources (3.14.4). 
> 
> The symptoms of the problem are below. I note this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17216067/git-clone-b-tag-results-in-warni
> ng-remote-branch-not-found-in-upstream-origi
> 
> How best to fix/resolve this? Is it a .config problem?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Jerry.
> 
> --------------------------snip------------------------------
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jevans/olimex/buildroot'
> >>> uboot  Downloading
> Doing shallow clone
> Cloning into 'uboot-'...
> warning: Could not find remote branch --bare to clone.
> fatal: Remote branch --bare not found in upstream origin
> Unexpected end of command stream
> Doing full clone
> Cloning into bare repository 'uboot-'...
> remote: Reusing existing pack: 261244, done.
> remote: Counting objects: 52, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (52/52), done.
> remote: Total 261296 (delta 29), reused 2 (delta 0)
> Receiving objects: 100% (261296/261296), 72.68 MiB | 228.00 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (205455/205455), done.
> Checking connectivity... done.
> usage: git archive [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
>    or: git archive --list
>    or: git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] [options] <tree-ish>
> [<path>...]
>    or: git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] --list
> 
>     --format <fmt>        archive format
>     --prefix <prefix>     prepend prefix to each pathname in the archive
>     -o, --output <file>   write the archive to this file
>     --worktree-attributes
>                           read .gitattributes in working directory
>     -v, --verbose         report archived files on stderr
>     -0                    store only
>     -1                    compress faster
>     -9                    compress better
> 
>     -l, --list            list supported archive formats
> 
>     --remote <repo>       retrieve the archive from remote repository <repo>
>     --exec <command>      path to the remote git-upload-archive command
> 
> --2014-05-19 01:03:33--  http://sources.buildroot.net/uboot-.tar.gz
> Resolving sources.buildroot.net (sources.buildroot.net)... 176.9.16.109
> Connecting to sources.buildroot.net
> (sources.buildroot.net)|176.9.16.109|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2014-05-19 01:03:33 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> 
> make: ***
> [/home/jevans/olimex/buildroot/output/build/uboot-/.stamp_downloaded] Error
> 1
> jevans at xub64:~/olimex/buildroot$ 
> jevans at xub64:~/olimex/buildroot/output/build$ make
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
> jevans at xub64:~/olimex/buildroot/output/build$ 

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