Bug 821

Summary:	cp: illegal operation
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Markus Schabel <markus.schabel>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	buildroot
Priority:	P5
Version:	2009.11
Target Milestone:	2010.02
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS
Host:	MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard	Target:	ARM SX-560
Build:	buildroot

Description Markus Schabel 2009-12-21 23:13:10 UTC

When building the toolchain on my Mac, it always halts because of an illegal parameter for cp. the parameter "-d" is not supported on Mac OS X. The following patch should work on all systems:

--- Makefile    2008-02-25 09:15:31.000000000 +0100
+++ Makefile    2009-12-22 00:04:29.000000000 +0100
@@ -283,11 +257,11 @@
 $(BR2_DEPENDS_DIR): .config
 	rm -rf $@
 	mkdir -p $(@D)
+	cp -af $(CONFIG)/buildroot-config $@
-	cp -dpRf $(CONFIG)/buildroot-config $@
 
 dirs: $(DL_DIR) $(TOOL_BUILD_DIR) $(BUILD_DIR) $(STAGING_DIR) $(TARGET_DIR) \

Comment 1 Peter Korsgaard 2010-01-28 22:59:15 UTC

Sorry, I think you'll run into a lot more problems than that to use BR on !Linux.
E.G.:

git grep 'cp -d'|wc -l
185

On top of that comes the build systems of the individual packages. I think you'll have a lot easier time dual booting / running Linux in a VM.

Comment 2 Thomas Petazzoni 2010-02-21 18:53:40 UTC

We do not support building on Mac OS X at the moment, unless someone with access to this system steps in to maintain such a port.