I'm running Buildroot for at91sam9x5ek on Fedora 17 x86_64. Buildroot fails to complete "host-mtd 1.4.4" I don't know what to do. Please help. List from make: make[2]: Entering directory `/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils' mkdir -p /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/host//usr/sbin install -m 0755 /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubiupdatevol /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubimkvol /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubirmvol /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubicrc32 /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubinfo /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubiattach /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubidetach /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubinize /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubiformat /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubirename /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/mtdinfo /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils/ubirsvol /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/host//usr/sbin/ make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/ubi-utils' d=mkfs.ubifs_install; \ t=`echo $d | sed s:.*_::` d=`echo $d | sed s:_.*::`; \ /usr/bin/make BUILDDIR=/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/$d -C $d $t make[2]: Entering directory `/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs' gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wno-sign-compare -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wl,--gc-sections -g -o /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/mkfs.ubifs /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/mkfs.ubifs.o /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/crc16.o /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/lpt.o /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/compr.o /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/devtable.o /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/hashtable/hashtable.o /home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/hashtable/hashtable_itr.o -lz -llzo2 -lm -luuid -L/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/../ubi-utils/ -lubi -L/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/../lib -lmtd -lcrc32 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llzo2 collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs/mkfs.ubifs] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/mkfs.ubifs' make[1]: *** [subdirs_mkfs.ubifs_install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4' make: *** [/home/steph/Buildroot/buildroot-2011.05/output/build/host-mtd-1.4.4/.stamp_host_installed] Error 2 [steph@Steph-Fedora buildroot-2011.05]$
Buildroot 2011.05 is way too far in the past for me to remember exactly what could have fixed that, but it seems like the command that links mkfs.ubifs was lacking a reference to $(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib for libraries. This is the reason why lzo2 wasn't found. I've just tested with a recent Buildroot (latest master, but 2013.02 should work fine), and host-mtd 1.5.0 builds fine. The lzo2 library is properly built and installed in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib, and mkfs.ubifs is linked against it. I'm therefore marking this bug as closed. If you are still having this issue with a more recent version of Buildroot, do not hesitate to reopen it, and attach a minimal Buildroot configuration that exhibits the problem. Thanks!