Building BusyBox with 4.6.3 TC

[Michael Hope]

On 28 April 2012 02:38, Dan Donahue <ddonahue at gridcosystems.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I successfully built BusyBox using the 4.5.2 toolchain. When I try to build
> BusyBox using the same config with the 4.6.3 toolchain I get the following
> error:
>
> The Linaro 4.5.2 toolchain was installed in my Ubuntu 11.04 distro using
> aptitude.
> The Linaro 4.6.3 toolchain binaries, downloaded via Launchpad, were
> installed into my own tools directory.
>
> busybox # make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-
> scripts/kconfig/conf -s Config.in
> can't find file Config.in
> make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2
> make: *** [include/autoconf.h] Error 2
>
> I get the same error if I try 'make oldconfig' or 'make menuconfig'.
>
> Is there a PATH I need to set? Am I missing a package?
>
> Right now my PATH has following 4.6.3 directories set:
> linaro-4.6.3/bin
> linaro-4.6.3/arm-linux-gnueabi/libc/usr/include
> linaro-4.6.3/arm-linux-gnueabi/libc/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi
> linaro-4.6.3/arm-linux-gnueabi/libc/usr/include

Hi Dan.  I'm afraid I can't reproduce this.  It looks more like a
configuration problem than a toolchain problem.  Did you provide your
own configuration or run 'make defconfig' before building?

Here's what I tried:
 * Downloaded busybox-1.20.0
 * Downloaded gcc-linaro-4.7-2012.04_linux
 * Extracted buysbox
 * Extracted gcc-linaro
 * Put the gcc-linaro bin directory in my path
 * Changed to the busybox directory
 * Ran 'make defconfig'
 * Ran 'make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-'

Hope that helps,

-- Michael