On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>wrote:
> On 21 February 2014 21:41, Jobin Raju George <jobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To fix this issue: > > > > I cloned dtc from its repository and extracted the tarball to qemu/dtc/. > > Why not just do the git submodule command that the error message > from configure suggests? You don't need to manually stick the tarball > into the qemu tree like this. > > When I did just that, it said it was not a git repository and returned this error: fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). So, the easiest way out, I believe was to clone it from its repositories. Please let me know the drawbacks of doing this. > > The problem was qemu tries to search for dtc binaries in qemu/dtc. Even > if > > you have installed dtc using sudo apt-get install device-tree-compiler, > you > > will get the above error(mentioned in the question), so you probably > need to > > have the binaries in qemu/dtc > > (1) You need the development libraries and headers, which for > Ubuntu are in "libfdt-dev", not "device-tree-compiler". > (2) If the system libfdt isn't sufficiently new/correctly built > we won't use it (in particular it has to provide /usr/include/libfdt_env.h) > I had installed libfdt-dev using apt-get but even that did not work, it returned the same error. > > thanks > -- PMM > -- Thanks and regards, Jobin Raju George Final Year, Information Technology College of Engineering Pune Alternate e-mail: georgejr10...@coep.ac.in
