Problem building BB 1.2 daemons for uClinux ARM

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Wed Aug 16 09:13:48 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:06:22AM +0100, Ian Oliver wrote:
>In article <VA.00001d07.0b0db08a at foxhill.co.uk>, Ian Oliver wrote:
>> I now get -
>> 
>> busybox_unstripped.elf2flt: In function `telnetd_main':
>> busybox_unstripped.elf2flt(.text.telnetd_main+0x1e0): undefined 
>> reference to `bb_xdaemon'
>
>Ok, I now understand. As it stands BusyBox 1.2 won't build for a MMU-
>less uClinux if you want telnetd (and possibly other stuff)
>
>The call to bb_xdaemon in telnetd.c should be ifdef'd out for such 
>archs. Similarly, the later call to fork should be a vfork.
>
>telnetd then needs backgrounding manually with an & but it does work.
>
>I'd kind of imagined that the MMU versus NOMMU details might be hidden 
>from applets but they all seem to need to tackle the problems 
>themselves.

IIRC this in the TODO -- or at least a TODO.



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