On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:54:45PM -0400, Ersin Akinci wrote: >Sorry, that was a little unclear: I was running make install on uClibc after >having built uClibc.
please do not top-post. > >-Ersin > >On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Ersin Akinci <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I was running "make install" after compiling and I wanted to install to a >> temporary root directory (that is, a random subdir on my system that I'm >> treating as a root dir for creating an image) that I had already installed >> my Linux headers to, the same ones which I had told uClibc to use during its >> compile. Before installing, however, I cleaned out the directory, thus >> removing the headers so that I could create a tar file with just the uClibc >> install for backup purposes, but make install wouldn't run without the >> headers in place. What's the reason for this? Is make install >> hardwiring/hardwired to some header paths? uClibc needs kernel headers to generate headers. If you want to install uClibc into a separate, empty directory that you can tar, then install it to that separate directory. make PREFIX=/my/rootdir install_headers make PREFIX=/some/where/else install_headers _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
