[uClinux-dev] BusyBox issues

[John Williams]

David McCullough wrote:
> Jivin Steve Bennett lays it down ...
> 
>>This often (always?) happens if you reconfigure busybox and rebuild.
>>The solution is simply to clean out busybox after reconfiguring to  
>>ensure
>>that everything is rebuilt.
>>
>>$ make user/busybox_clean
> 
> The code in user/busbox/Makefile is supposed to do a clean whenever
> the config is changed.
> 
> I think we should change:
> 
> 	.config.mkconfig: $(ROOTDIR)/config/.config
> 		...
> 		$(MAKE) clean; \
> 		...
> 
> to a "distclean" perhaps to ensure everything is truly cleaned out.
> Someone want to try it :-) :-)

I've found that if you change the busybox config, you have to rebuild it 
(make user_only) *twice* before doing a make romfs, to ensure all new 
applets are built and properly symlinked.  Never taken the time to 
figure out why, just a gotcha.

Anyone else seen this?

John