[Buildroot] Problem making buildroot

Will Newton will.newton at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 16:23:18 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:25 PM, jdzielski<jdzielski at stevens.edu> wrote:
>
> Sorry if this is a multiple post.  It's showing up in the list that I see but
> there is an indication that he message hasn't been accepted.
>
> Hi,
>    I'm new at trying to do things at this level, but I'm trying to make the
> buildroot on Ubuntu 8.04.  I've been following the instructions at
> http://docwiki.gumstix.org/index.php/Buildroot which is pretty straight
> forward.  There were a couple errors that I managed to fix, but I've reached
> a point where I'm not sure what the make file is trying to do.  The command
> that is being executed by the main make is:

I believe that the problem is caused by a combination of an old
binutils and a newer version of texinfo. Try using a newer binutils if
possible.


More information about the buildroot mailing list