get buildroot-2010.08 to build a rootfs for ARM926T and you will end up without /lib/* in the rootfs.ext2 (so if you bake it from there, your system is borked (i.e. the famous -sh: xxx: not found errors)). To fix this, you can find your uclibs et al. at ./output/target/lib/* my #-stripped .config: BR2_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG=y BR2_VERSION="2010.08" BR2_arm=y BR2_arm926t=y BR2_ARM_TYPE="ARM926T" BR2_ARM_EABI=y BR2_ARCH="arm" BR2_ENDIAN="LITTLE" BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE="arm926ej-s" BR2_GCC_TARGET_ARCH="armv5te" BR2_GCC_TARGET_ABI="aapcs-linux" BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME="br_20101028" BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_ISSUE="Welcome to Buildroot, 20101028" BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY=y BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_TTYS0=y BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttyS0" BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE_115200=y BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE="115200" BR2_WGET="wget --passive-ftp -nd" BR2_SVN_CO="svn co" BR2_SVN_UP="svn up" BR2_BZR_CO="bzr co" BR2_BZR_UP="bzr up" BR2_GIT="git clone" BR2_ZCAT="gzip -d -c" BR2_BZCAT="bzcat" BR2_TAR_OPTIONS="" BR2_DL_DIR="$(TOPDIR)/dl" BR2_STAGING_DIR="$(BASE_DIR)/staging" BR2_PRIMARY_SITE="" BR2_BACKUP_SITE="http://sources.buildroot.net/" BR2_SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR="easynews" BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR="http://www.kernel.org/pub/" BR2_GNU_MIRROR="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu" BR2_DEBIAN_MIRROR="http://ftp.debian.org" BR2_JLEVEL=4 BR2_STRIP_strip=y BR2_OPTIMIZE_S=y BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB=y BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT=y BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_2_6_32=y BR2_DEFAULT_KERNEL_HEADERS="2.6.32.18" BR2_UCLIBC_VERSION_0_9_31=y BR2_UCLIBC_VERSION_STRING="0.9.31" BR2_UCLIBC_CONFIG="toolchain/uClibc/uClibc-0.9.31.config" BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_20_1=y BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION="2.20.1" BR2_EXTRA_BINUTILS_CONFIG_OPTIONS="" BR2_GCC_VERSION_4_4_X=y BR2_GCC_SUPPORTS_FINEGRAINEDMTUNE=y BR2_GCC_VERSION="4.4.4" BR2_EXTRA_GCC_CONFIG_OPTIONS="" BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT=y BR2_PREFER_SOFT_FLOAT=y BR2_SOFT_FLOAT=y BR2_PTHREADS_OLD=y BR2_TARGET_OPTIMIZATION="-pipe" BR2_CROSS_TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_UTILS=y BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX=y BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION_1_17_X=y BR2_BUSYBOX_VERSION="1.17.1" BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_FULLINSTALL=y BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_CONFIG="package/busybox/busybox-1.17.x.config" BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOCONF=y BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOMAKE=y BR2_PACKAGE_FAKEROOT=y BR2_PACKAGE_MAKE=y BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTOOL=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_LINUXINPUT=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_KEYBOARD=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_PS2MOUSE=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_SERIALMOUSE=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_TSLIB=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_GIF=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_JPEG=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_PNG=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_EXAMPLES=y BR2_PACKAGE_DIRECTFB_EXAMPLES_FIRE=y BR2_PACKAGE_FBDUMP=y BR2_PACKAGE_MAKEDEVS=y BR2_PACKAGE_MICROPERL=y BR2_PACKAGE_MICROPERL_MODULES="" BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB=y BR2_PACKAGE_FREETYPE=y BR2_PACKAGE_JPEG=y BR2_PACKAGE_LIBPNG=y BR2_PACKAGE_TSLIB=y BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUSB=y BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES=y BR2_PACKAGE_NANO=y BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT="" BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE="target/generic/device_table.txt" BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_DEFAULT=y BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_BLOCKS=0 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_INODES=0 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_RESBLKS=0 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SQUASH=y BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_NONE=y
bugzilla> my #-stripped .config: bugzilla> BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB=y You've selected static linking, so you shouldn't need any libs. This is not a commonly used configuration though so it might be broken (actually it most likely is). Disable that option and rm -rf output; make