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@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ kept a
\href{https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/source/master:enforcement-case-studies_log-output/thinkpenguin_librecmc-complete.log}{full \href{https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/source/master:enforcement-case-studies_log-output/thinkpenguin_librecmc-complete.log}{full
log of the build}, which is not included herein due its size (approximately log of the build}, which is not included herein due its size (approximately
7.2K of text). 7.2K of text).
\label{thinkpenguin-main-build}
Upon competition of the ``make'' process, the investigator immediately found Upon competition of the ``make'' process, the investigator immediately found
(almost to his surprise) several large firmware files in the ``bin/ar71xx'' (almost to his surprise) several large firmware files in the ``bin/ar71xx''
@ -533,39 +534,56 @@ compilation).
\section{U-Boot Compilation} \section{U-Boot Compilation}
* As mentioned above, we also found a "u-boot\verb0_0reflash" file at the top level of %FIXME: link to u-boot reflash, maybe put it in log-output dir?
the included source CD. We followed the instructions for compiling U-Boot,
which were fairly straight-forward. One modification would be to mention that
"\$U-BOOT\verb0_0SRC" referred to the extracted source directory, which was implied,
but should have been explicit.
* Additionally, we noticed that the included toolchain binaries, which were used
by the U-Boot compilation process by default, did not run on our system. In
particular, we received this error:
mips-librecmc-linux-uclibc-gcc.bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC`\verb0_02.14' not found (required by mips-librecmc-linux-uclibc-gcc.bin) The investigator then turned his attention to the file,
``u-boot\verb0_0reflash'' instructions. These instructions explained how to
build and install the bootloader for the device.
The complete log output (including the command used to run it) is here: The investigator followed the instructions for compiling u-Boot, and found
them quite straight-forward. The investigator discovered two minor
annoyances, however, while building U-Boot:
enforcement-case-studies\verb0_0log-output/thinkpenguin\verb0_0u-boot-build\verb0_0fail.log \begin{itemize}
* We found that by removing toolchain/bin and symlinking the toolchain built for \item the variable \verb0$U-BOOT_SRC0 was used as a placeholder for the name
the filesystem/kernel above in its place, we were able to complete the U-Boot of the extracted source directory. This was easy to surmise and was not a
build. Specifically, we symlinked toolchain/bin to: compliance issue (per the reasonableness standard), but explicitly stating
that at the top of the instructions would be helpful.
../../staging\verb0_0dir/toolchain-mips\verb0_034kc\verb0_0gcc-4.6-linaro\verb0_0uClibc-0.9.33.2/bin \item Toolchain binaries were included and used by default by the build
process. These binaries were not the appropriate ones for the
investigator's host system, and the build failed with the following error:
Output from the symlink operation can be found here: \lstset{tabsize=2}
\begin{lstlisting}
mips-librecmc-linux-uclibc-gcc.bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC`_2.14' not found (required by mips-librecmc-linux-uclibc-gcc.bin)
\end{lstlisting}
enforcement-case-studies\verb0_0log-output/thinkpenguin\verb0_0u-boot-create\verb0_0symlink.log (The
\href{https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/source/master:enforcement-case-studies_log-output/thinkpenguin_u-boot-build_fail.log}{complete
log output from the failure} is too lengthy to include herein.)
* Ideally the pre-built toolchain binaries should not be included and a symlink This issue is an annoyance, not a compliance problem. It was clear from
as mentioned above should be created by default, with a mention that the context that these binaries were simply for a different architecture, and
U-Boot build depends on the previous build for its toolchain. the investigator simply removed ``toolchain/bin'' and used a symlink the
* After compilation completed successfully, we found a new U-Boot image in the utilize the toolchain already built earlier (during the compilation
bin directory. The instructions explained how to install it on the device. discussed in \S~\ref{thinkpenguin-main-build}):
Output from the successful build (after the symlink was created) is here:
enforcement-case-studies\verb0_0log-output/thinkpenguin\verb0_0u-boot-finish\verb0_0build.log \lstset{tabsize=2}
\begin{lstlisting}
$ ln -s ../../staging_dir/toolchain-mips_34kc\verb_gcc-4.6-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2/bin toolchain/bin
\end{lstlisting}
After this change, the U-Boot build completed successfully.
\end{itemize}
The
\href{https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/source/master:enforcement-case-studies_log-output/thinkpenguin_u-boot-finish_build.log}{full
log of the build} is not included herein due its size (approximately 3.8K
of text). After that, the investigator found a new U-Boot image in the
``bin'' directory.
\section{U-Boot Installation} \section{U-Boot Installation}