[Buildroot] Following direction, but failing to compile

[Will Newton]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Neil Cherry<ncherry at linuxha.com> wrote:
> I've been having a few problems getting BuildRoot to work. So I
> decided to fall back, read and follow the directions. But this
> too has failed.
>
> What I've done is:
>
> tar jxvf buildroot-2009.05.tar.bz2
> cd buildroot-2009.05
> make menuconfig
> make
>
> When I'm compiling all goes well until I hit this:
>
>        :
>  DEPMOD  2.6.29.4-test
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/njc/stuff/buildroot-2009.05/project_build_i586/LORHA/linux-2.6.29.4'
> + rm -f
> /home/njc/stuff/buildroot-2009.05/project_build_i586/LORHA/root/lib/modules/2.6.29.4/build
> /home/njc/stuff/buildroot-2009.05/project_build_i586/LORHA/root/lib/modules/2.6.29.4/source
> + /home/njc/stuff/buildroot-2009.05/build_i586/staging_dir/bin/i586-linux-depmod26 -b
> /home/njc/stuff/buildroot-2009.05/project_build_i586/LORHA/root 2.6.29.4
> WARNING: Couldn't open directory
> /home/njc/stuff/buildroot-2009.05/project_build_i586/LORHA/root/lib/modules/2.6.29.4: No
> such file or directory
> FATAL: Could not open
> /home/njc/stuff/buildroot-2009.05/project_build_i586/LORHA/root/lib/modules/2.6.29.4/modules.dep.temp
> for writing: No such file or directory
> make: ***
> [/home/njc/stuff/buildroot-2009.05/project_build_i586/LORHA/root/lib/modules/2.6.29.4/modules.dep]
> Error 1
>
> I'm having trouble finding where the sequence of commands are
> executed so I can figure out why the directory is not being created.
>
> I can go into the linux-2.6.29.4 directory and manually compile
> the kernel with no errors.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.

It looks like it's the modules_install target in the kernel Makefile
that is failing. Can you make that target successfully i.e. make
modules_install in the kernel tree?

> Thanks
>
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