I don't have trouble with Ubuntu - except in this case. I am building Gumstix images regularly. Last night I wanted to look at the options in one of the Makefiles and discovered that the Makefile calls IDENTICALLY named executables. Those are the same executable names that fail with "command not found" in the Astlinux branch I was trying to build. I have checked to see that the files have execute permissions. It is specific to the stuff I checked out.
Maybe I can steal one of the gumstix executables and see if I get a clue when I run make... The problem with the VMWare script was with a recent Ubuntu OS. The script called for /bin/sh but wanted something specific from bash. Ubuntu had linked /bin/sh to /bin/dash and the script would fail. I think that both VMware and Ubuntu can share the blame on that. They both have made assumptions that were not legitimate. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darrick Hartman (lists) Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 9:58 AM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Building with Ubuntu Unmonitored wrote: > I too have had problems - mostly with VMWare scripts. I did change the > symbolic link to point to bash and it didn't help with the build. > > There is something else missing. While I would prefer to use a Debian > based Linux OS - I can certainly leave the FC8 virtual machine around. > Maybe there is a clue if I open one of the executable files that seem to > fail in a hex editor... Fedora 8 definitely works. (most of the stuff should even build on a 64bit host--but not everything yet). If you have problems with VMWare scripts as well, perhaps something is corrupt on your box? Ubuntu should work fine. I know Kris and others have used Ubuntu in the past. I use either CentOS or Fedora, but nothing in the buildroot environment should be distro specific. If it looks like some files are missing, why don't you delete your local svn repository and grab a fresh copy (or do an svn update). You should do an svn update frequently anyway as changes are constantly being made. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
