[Buildroot] Buildroot does not generates target image.

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Mon Nov 24 23:13:53 UTC 2008


PLEASE, stop posting about this several times per day. It won't help us
to help you any quicker.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:21:29AM +0300, Чинков Андрей wrote:
> So I have the following question:
> 
> 1) .../buildroot/project_build_mipsel/uclibc/root - is it the root 
> folder for target JFFS2 image ?

Yes

> 2) Could I invoke this command "mkfs.jffs2 -d 
> .../buildroot/project_build_mipsel/uclibc/root -o MY_IMAGE_NAME 
> --little-endian" to produce target JFFS2 image by hand?

Yes

> 3) If I goto 4.1 item and set produce target JFFS2 image flag then I get 
> an error after Linux compiles: "No rule to make 'mtd-host'".
> What does this error means? How to force BUILDROOT to produce target 
> image (like JFFS2) ??

I think it's a bug in buildroot. Unless you have selected one of the MTD
package versions to go into your build, it doesn't have a rule to build
mtd-host, which provides mkfs.jffs2.

A simple workaround is to go into the package selection and enabled MTD
(under hardware packages).


Hamish
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