Re: Trying to build embedded distribution

Hi Claudio,

2007/2/19, Claudio Leonel <cls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> We have developed a small distribution
> using Buildroot for a small x86 thin client
> (166Mhz, 128MB Ram, 128MB CF)
> This distribution is uClibc based and doesn't
> have Xorg.
>
> We need now to develop another distribution
> glibc based so we can run Xorg and eventually
> some GUI toolkit such as GTK+ or FLTK.
> We also intend to use busybox instead
> of the classic Linux utilities.
>
> We are trying to build it using T2 (6.0.2 on
> a T2 6.0.2 host) but we are having problems.
>
> We built a new target based on Dreamcast
> and we simplified the 'config.in' file to
> generate first a very minimal distribution.
> We removed the 'minit' package because we are
> going to use the 'init' program from busybox.
> But even with the 'minit' package removed,
> T2 tries to build it and an error occurs
> (probably because we removed libowfat package)
> aborting the build.
>
> We really don't understand while T2 is trying
> to build 'minit' if it is not in the package
> list. I have attached the 'config.in' we are
> using. Any help would be appreciated.

I guess you ran the Config script with the config.in template from the
dreamcast target containing the line SDECFGSET_INIT='minit'. Even if
you removed this line from targets config.in, it is not automatically
reset to the default ('sysvinit'), check your effective target
settings in config/$target/config.

You should set a new init style in your config.in, like
SDECFGSET_INIT='sysvinit' (using svn:trunk you could even set
SDECFGSET_INIT='busybox').

Michael