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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> make allyesconfig just worked !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I hope BL3 uses busybox sed.
>
> So I tried /usr/bin/ar instead.  It is older but bigger.

And it's not from busybox. The busybox one is unsuitable for
compiling.

> I removed the /bin/ar (busybox ar symlink).  It is compiling.....  but got
> stuck on hdparm.  HDIO_SET_BUSSTATE undeclared (along with quite a few
> other things about HDIO and BUSSTATE).  I could try a make without hdparm,
> assuming it needs a later glibc to build.

Your 2.2.16 kernel headers are too old. I should have thought
of that. uClibc comes with newer headers. I wonder if the busybox
hdparm, after compiling, will even work on 2.2?

> Can I hand-edit .config?

Good luck. I don't think menuconfig is very hard - it's much easier
than make config if you just want to turn one thing off.

> INSTALL definitely says to 'make allbaseconfig' but Makefile has a line
> about 'allbareconfig', that makes all applets without any options.
> Should I report this problem with INSTALL to the busybox people?

Yes, that is definitely a problem.

> I have not tried using uclibc to compile yet. I somehow thought it would
> be easier with glibc and gcc from SW8.1.
>
> One uclibc busybox that someone (Stephen Clement?) compiled had several
> non-usable programs (mv etc.) so I was avoiding it if possible.

I don't know why Stephen's busyboxes do not work on 2.2. The
ones that I compiled with uclibc worked fine. Maybe his kernel
is too new?

OK. If you're not scared off yet, you might try make allnoconfig
and then make. Then add just a few features at a time and see
if you can get something to work.

David