[Buildroot] init segfaults when compiled with glibc

[Yann E. MORIN]

Sasha, All,

On Tuesday 30 March 2010 142701 Sasha Sirotkin wrote:
> I compiled an external toolchain with glibc support using crosstools-ng 
> as recommended. I managed to compile buildroot without any issues. 
> However, when I try to use the resulting image /sbin/init segfaults. 
> With uclibc there are no such issues. I'm using the latest versions of 
> everything on ARM with EABI.

By default, gcc will emit armv5t instructions. What's your target CPU?
init segfaulting can be a symptom of using a bad instruction set, so if
your CPU is armv4, and you did not tell gcc to default to armv4, then
you will hit this segfault issue.

regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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