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Re: [Fwd: Re: Redboot compilation problem.]
- From: Robin Farine <acnrf at dial dot eunet dot ch>
- To: Erik Reikes <ereikes at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discuss <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 31 Jan 2002 10:25:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] [Fwd: Re: [ECOS] Redboot compilation problem.]
- References: <1012464512.2708.23.camel@thinktwice.zoftcorp.dk>
Hi Erik,
In order to better understand the eCos terminology and build process, I
suggest you read the document below (see part III for the command-line
stuff).
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/docs-latest/guides/user-guides.2.html
Robin
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 09:08, Jesper Skov wrote:
> From: Erik Reikes <ereikes@hotmail.com>
> To: jskov@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redboot compilation problem.
> Date: 30 Jan 2002 16:42:04 +0000
>
> >On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 10:28, Erik Reikes wrote:
> > > I think I may have some sort of package manipulation problem going on,
> >as I
> > > just did a :
> >[snip]
> >
> >In your original posting you had 'ecosconfig tree' - i.e., missing the
> >--prefix argument. Use ECOS_REPOSITORY instead of specifying it on the
> >command line to avoid mistakes.
> >
> >Jesper
>
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I think that may have been a typo in e-mail. I
> looked back through my history logs and it was specified correctly in all of
> the attempts I could see.
>
> I have a quick question regarding the repository stuff. I believe I set
> ECOS_REPOSITORY to the directory where things are going to get put. Is this
> correct? Then I run : ecosconfig new pc redboot; ecosconfig import
> <proper_floppy_file>; ecosconfig tree; make.
>
> The make file seems to always get put in the current directory, but I am
> only able to run ecosconfig in the /ecos/packages directory. Anyhwere else
> I run it I either get a "error : Can't open ecos.db" or if I copy ecos.db
> into that directory I get a whole mess of package errors. Does anyone know
> how to specify ecos.db so that ecosconfig can find it?
>
> I've tried the different flags listed by ecosconfig as well as setting the
> path and I believe all of the environment variables listed in the docs.
>
> Is ecos.db a new "feature" of ecosconfig?
>
> Seems like the is causing multiple configurations to conflict with each
> other.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Erik Reikes
>
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