[Buildroot] generated shared libraries are not ARM but Intel - why ?

[Kevin Wilson]

Hi,
Thanks for your quick response !
I tried again , deleting that tree and untarring the zip file
again, Now it is ok !
rgs
Kevin



On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 06/04/12 14:22, Kevin Wilson wrote:
>>
>> I want to make a filesystem for Arm running 32 bit V7 arm processor.
>> My host machine is x86_64 Intel machine
>> I downloaded buildroot-2012.02.tar.bz2
>> buildroot-2012.02
>> I selected
>> Test architecure - arm
>>  Target Architecture Variant - generic arm
>>
>> I selected very few packages like gcc
>>
>> I ran "make" and a rootfs tar file was generated.
>>
>> After extracting it,  I  could not boot from it ;
>> chekling further into the filesystem I created got:
>>
>>  file /lib/libdl-0.9.32.1.so
>> libdl-0.9.32.1.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version
>> 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>> file  lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>> lib/libgcc_s.so.1: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version
>> 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
>>
>>
>> It should have been an ARM object library.
>> What did I do wrong ?
>
>
>  This is very strange.
>
>  Can you check the top of the .config file to make sure that you indeed
> have an ARM configuration?
>
>  You didn't, by any chance, compile first and only changed the architecture
> to ARM afterwards?  buildroot doesn't automatically detect when the
> configuration has changed in an incompatible way, and the default
> architecture
> is i386.  So you may still be using a toolchain for i386 even if you
> reconfigured
> for ARM.  To be sure, remove the output directory (or run 'make clean').
>
>  If all that fails, can you post the defconfig?  Run 'make savedefconfig'
> and it
> is saved in the file 'defconfig'.
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
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