Re: failure to create uClinux 2.4 for COBRA5282-board

Jivin Bob Brusa lays it down ...
> Hi,
> I just made my very first attempt to create a linux system for my board. I  
> am using the toolchain installed by/from the script  
> m68k-elf-tools-20030314.sh and the uClinux sources are unpacked from  
> uClinux-dist-20070130.tar.gz. Then I do what the README file says: make  
> xconfig and select vendor sentec and my board, then kernel version 2.4.x  
> (because README reccommends this) and all the rest I leave as is. Ok no  
> errors. Then make dep - also goes throug without errors (at least I did  
> not see one). Finally make<enter> and with this the problems begin. I had  
> the impression - text flys by in a hurry - that errors popped up very  
> early in the process. The final lines of the (tremendous) output are:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ....
> x-dist/user/busybox/shell/shell.a  
> /home/rwb/uClinux-dist/user/busybox/sysklogd/sysklogd.a  
> /home/rwb/uClinux-dist/user/busybox/util-linux/util-linux.a  
> /home/rwb/uClinux-dist/user/busybox/libpwdgrp/libpwdgrp.a  
> /home/rwb/uClinux-dist/user/busybox/coreutils/libcoreutils/libcoreutils.a  
> /home/rwb/uClinux-dist/user/busybox/libbb/libbb.a  -Wl,--end-group
> /usr/local/m68k-elf/bin/ld.real: unrecognized option `--fatal-warnings'
> /usr/local/m68k-elf/bin/ld.real: use the --help option for usage  
> informationcollect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [busybox] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/rwb/uClinux-dist/user/busybox'
> make[3]: *** [all] Fehler 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rwb/uClinux-dist/user/busybox'
> make[2]: *** [busybox] Fehler 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rwb/uClinux-dist/user'
> make[1]: *** [all] Fehler 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rwb/uClinux-dist/user'
> make: *** [subdirs] Fehler 1
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The make did not produce a folder called 'image' or 'images' and hence  
> there is no binary anywhere. What can I do to trace down the problem?

You may be stuck with getting a newer toolchain,  a lot of packages have
been updated in the dist and the old 2.95.3 compilers don't always cut
it.

For now, check in your config.arch and vendors/config/m68knommu/config.arch
for -Werror, remove it and you may be on your way,

Cheers,
Davidm

-- 
David McCullough,  [email protected],   Ph:+61 734352815
Secure Computing - SnapGear  http://www.uCdot.org http://www.cyberguard.com
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