[Buildroot] Analysis of build failures

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Mon Nov 11 10:10:53 UTC 2013


Hi Thomas,

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:58:30AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:33:16 -0800, Chris Zankel wrote:
> > (I'm a bit surprised to get all those errors as binutils currently doesn't 
> > build. Are you using an older toolchain, or are these packages not 
> > dependent on the final binutils build?)
> 
> The binutils issues you're seeing are while building native binutils
> for the target, not when building cross-binutils for the cross
> compilation toolchain. Building the cross-binutils works ok, because
> they are built against the build machine C library, which is glibc and
> therefore has obstack stuff.

Why do we need binutils on target?

baruch

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