From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:34:05 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Basic stupid questions regarding buildroot In-Reply-To: <1A3C06457633904EAC567D23DA05171702AA8455@calrec-exch03.calrecaudio.com> (David Wooff's message of "Thu, 20 May 2010 11:23:40 +0100") References: <1A3C06457633904EAC567D23DA05171702AA8455@calrec-exch03.calrecaudio.com> Message-ID: <87sk5mx3oi.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "David" == David Wooff writes: David> Hi, David> sorry for these rather basic questions: David> 1. If I download the latest version of buildroot, am I tied to David> a particular version of the kernel? I current have an old David> buildroot (from late last year and kernel 2.6.30, but I'm going David> to download the latest buildroot because I'm having compilation David> problems (since I did a "clean") and it has been suggested that David> I use the latest version. I currently build the kernel David> separately. There's a limited number of kernel versions supported for any buildroot release, but as you are compiling your kernel seperately you are completely free to choose your kernel version. The kernel headers version doesn't have to be the same as the kernel version (it only has to be new enough to provide headers for whatever features you need). David> 2. Regarding pre-requisite "packages" or build tools, if I have David> to manually download a toolset of some description, where does David> it have to live? Is this automatically "known" by any David> application which might want to use it? Is there a list of David> anything I need to manually install before attempting to build David> buildroot? You mean stuff on the build host? We do a dependency check when you run make and error out if anything in missing. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard