From: Christopher Vo <chr...@gm...> - 2005-02-21 08:23:12
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To Phillip and Dave: Many thanks for your insight! It was grep indeed. I downloaded grep-2.5 and compiled it on Mac OS X. This version of grep has -m option. Re-svn'd the gumstix-buildroot, and everything worked. -- Christopher Vo (chr...@gm...) Dave Hylands wrote: >Hi Chris. > > > >>The difference between the setup that worked, and that did not work for me >>was the upgrading from debian stable (woody), to testing (sarge). >> >> > >I'm pretty sure (now that you've jogged my memory), that the problem >is caused by having an old version of grep and/or sed (I' haven't >convinced myself that buildroot actually uses the version of sed that >it downloads). > >My linux box that I used to do my gumstix builds on, used to work >(with the 2.6.9 kernel) and failed when I upgraded everything last >week. One of the things I noticed while looking through the error >logs, was that grep was being called with the -m option, which didn't >exist in the verion of grep I had (or the one included with woody). I >also saw some sed errors (which don't happen if the right version of >sed is called). > >I guess I should prove it be upgrading grep and seeing if that fixes >anything (since the last build I did got the same errors that you >showed). > > > |