[Buildroot] make clean;make fails

Arnar Mar Sig antab at valka.is
Thu May 8 13:23:07 UTC 2008


On May 8, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Hodgson, Simon wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> I'm trying to remove some packages from my buildroot to free up some  
> diskspace.
>
> First, I noticed if I do 'make menuconfig' remove the packages then  
> 'make' they don't actually get removed from the rootfs disk image.
There is no standard deinstall/remove for packages in buildroot (that  
I know off), some packages have rules to remove them, but not all.

> So then I thought I'd try 'make clean', 'make' but it would appear  
> this doesn't put all the necessary stuff into project_build_arm/ 
> at91sam9260dfc/root/ (e.g. /usr/bin directory is missing, /etc/ 
> shadow file is missing amongst others)
>
> Is this is bug in the buildroot system, or something I'm doing wrong?
/etc/shadow and most /etc files are installed from the target_skelaton  
you are using, and that depends on the Device target you are building  
for.
/usr/bin is only created if needed by packages, so if it isin't there,  
no packages needed it.


Arnar Mar Sig



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