[Buildroot] JFFS2 / MTD suggestions

[Lloyd Sargent]

I ran into this issue as well and ""lzo/lzo1.h not found" is terribly  
confusing. Adding just "on host" to the end of the message would  
clarify it immensely.

Cheers,

Lloyd


On Apr 7, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When selecting jffs2 as the output filesystem, mtd-utils gets compiled
> both on the host and on the target. I think that generating a jffs2
> filesystem image should *not* trigger the compilation/installation of
> mtd-utils inside the target since this is not necessary.
>
> Moreover, the compilation of host mtd-utils fails with "lzo/lzo1.h not
> found" if the liblzo-dev package is not installed on the host. We
> should probably add a test checking this and telling the user to
> install liblzo-dev, because the current state is quite confusing.
>
> Sincerly,
>
> Thomas
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