From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril HAENEL Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:44:46 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Basic stupid questions regarding buildroot In-Reply-To: <1A3C06457633904EAC567D23DA05171702AA8455@calrec-exch03.calrecaudio.com> References: <1A3C06457633904EAC567D23DA05171702AA8455@calrec-exch03.calrecaudio.com> Message-ID: <4BF5129E.7060607@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le 20/05/2010 12:23, David Wooff a ?crit : > Hi, > sorry for these rather basic questions: > 1. If I download the latest version of buildroot, am I tied to a > particular version of the kernel? I current have an old buildroot > (from late last year and kernel 2.6.30, but I'm going to download the > latest buildroot because I'm having compilation problems (since I did > a "clean") and it has been suggested that I use the latest version. I > currently build the kernel separately. > 2. Regarding pre-requisite "packages" or build tools, if I have to > manually download a toolset of some description, where does it have to > live? Is this automatically "known" by any application which might > want to use it? Is there a list of anything I need to manually > install before attempting to build buildroot? > Many thanks, > Dave W. Hi, I can answer to the question 1 : I use buildroot for an arm processoir based board, and I build the kernel separately. I work with a 2.6.27 kernel, I use buildroot release 2010.02, and everything works well. Before I was using release 2009-02, but I changed to 2010.02 for the same reason, compilation problems after make clean ;) So I alway use my 2.6.27 kernel, I just changed its configuration to use EABI because buildroot release 2010.02 use EABI by default. Regards, Cyril HAENEL -- Cyril Haenel Registered Linux User #332632