[uClinux-dev] BusyBox issues

[Robert S. Grimes]

Boy, I sure touched a live wire here, eh?  Still, Thanks!

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> 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
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> On 22/02/2007, at 10:45 AM, Robert S. Grimes wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not sure, but it seems BusyBox is difficult to build.  I don't
>> really know what is going on, but here's my experience so far.
>>
>> The first time I attempted to build uClinux (uClinux-dist-20070130,
>> target board M5329EVB, ColdFire 5329), I selected a goodly number of
>> BusyBox "commands".  It would not build, seeming to fail during
>> linking.  So I reconfigured without it, and it all built fine.
>>
>> Then, I needed insmod, which seems to only ,be in BusyBox.  I added
>> it, selecting insmod (and I think find) and it built properly this
>> time.  Later, I added some more, and then it would not build again!
>>
>> So, I removed BusyBox, built the uClinux image just fine.  Then, I
>> reconfigured to include it, and just insmod, and it built again.
>>
>> I wish I wrote down the errors, but I recall they were of the form
>> 'main_more not found' (or perhaps 'more_main'?).  Others include
>> main_ls, main_ls, main_mv (or again, the other order?).  So I'm
>> wondering: is there some sort of conflict between BusyBox "commands"
>> and their "standalone" equivalents?  Or am I missing something?  It
>> seems building BusyBox is rather fragile, but I think it is something
>> I'm doing wrong - is that right?
>>
>> Thanks, all!
>> -Bob
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