[Buildroot] "mconf cannot execute binary file " ??

Cavalera Claudio Luigi Claudio.Cavalera at italtel.it
Wed Sep 23 13:24:12 UTC 2009


Hello guys,
my name is Claudio and I'm new on the list.
I'm trying to learn buildroot, in the past I've been successful using
scratchbox but now I want to try buildroot which should be better for my
MIPS target architecture.

As far as I've understood the only documentation available is this one:
http://www.buildroot.net/buildroot.html
is this correct?

Wanting to start with something stable, I've downloaded the tarballs but
when I issue make menuconfig
it complains about 'mconf' 
/bin/sh: package/config/mconf: cannot execute binary file

it seems a MIPS file:
file package/config/mconf
package/config/mconf: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-I version 1
(SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

It seems impossible to me that such a problem made into the buildroot
release because it would have been reported by many others also but I
found nothing about it.

So chances are that it's a problem of my environment or something I'm
doing (but it's just an untar and a make menuconfig).
Is it ok to run make menuconfig on an x86 build host?
Maybe it's better to use the latest git instead of the tarballs?

Thanks a lot,
Claudio


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