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Because of a limitation in how makedevs resolves names [0], usernames and groupnames would be resolved with UIDs and GIDs from the host, not the target. Fixing makedevs would involve us rewriting a /etc/passwd and /etc/group parser (not too complex, still not trivial). Document that the user and group fields should only be numbers, not names. Also, the manual is currently misleading, as an example indeed uses names for the user and group fields. Fix that and expand the explanations. The mode field should also be numbers, not a rwx combo. Slight typographical eye-candy about major/minor fields. [0] it uses getpwnma(3) and getgrnam(3) to resolve names to IDs, and those only resolve names on the host (i.e. there is no way to specify a chroot-like feature) Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation. The documentation can be found in docs/manual. You can generate a text document with 'make manual-text' and read output/docs/manual/manual.text. Online documentation can be found at http://buildroot.org/docs.html To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following: 1) run 'make menuconfig' 2) select the target architecture and the packages you wish to compile 3) run 'make' 4) wait while it compiles 5) find the kernel, bootloader, root filesystem, etc. in output/images You do not need to be root to build or run buildroot. Have fun! Buildroot comes with a basic configuration for a number of boards. Run 'make list-defconfigs' to view the list of provided configurations. Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to the buildroot mailing list: buildroot@buildroot.org You can also find us on #buildroot on Freenode IRC.