[Buildroot] makedevs: line 49: regular file (...) buildroot/output/target/usr/share/udhcpc/default.script does not exist: No such file or directory

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:32:45 +0100
Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio at sergiomb.no-ip.org> wrote:

> > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:48:09 +0100
> > Sergio Monteiro Basto <sergio at sergiomb.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I got this error too , with buildroot-2010.05.
> > 
> > Which error ?
> 
> Well error is in subject (Can't get Buildrooot to finish):

Aah, okay, I missed it.

> makedevs: line 49: regular file (...)
> buildroot/output/target/usr/share/udhcpc/default.script does not
> exist: No such file or directory

Can you post your Buildroot .config for us to reproduce the issue ?

> > > After read some threads in this mailing list is this some error , 
> > > to work around I done:
> > > cd output/target/usr/share
> > > ln -s ../../../../target/generic/target_skeleton/usr/share/udhcpc
> > > 
> > > and build rootfs , is this correct ? the target is a mips32r2 . 
> > 
> > Maybe, but as you haven't copy/pasted the error, it's hard to
> > say :-)

In fact, the work around is not correct. You're creating a symbolic
link from the target directory to the outside. While this symbolic may
work on the development system where Buildroot runs, it will miserably
fail on the target system.

Thomas
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