building from source

[dunryc]

ive managed to get the source to build using the mew make method and am left with images at the end of the process , how ever during the build during compiling busy box i get some questions as below

Build BusyBox as a static binary (no shared libs) (CONFIG_STATIC) [N/y/?] n
Build with Large File Support (for accessing files > 2 GB) (CONFIG_LFS) [Y/n/?] y
Do you want to build BusyBox with a Cross Compiler? (USING_CROSS_COMPILER) [N/y/?] n
Any extra CFLAGS options for the compiler? (EXTRA_CFLAGS_OPTIONS) []
Compile all sources at once (CONFIG_BUILD_AT_ONCE) [N/y/?] (NEW)

Build BusyBox with Debugging symbols (CONFIG_DEBUG) [N/y/?] n
Disable obsolete features removed before SUSv3? (CONFIG_DEBUG_YANK_SUSv2) [Y/n/?] (NEW)

Don't use /usr (CONFIG_INSTALL_NO_USR) [Y/n/?] y
Applets links
> 1. as soft-links (CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_SYMLINKS)
2. as hard-links (CONFIG_INSTALL_APPLET_HARDLINKS)
choice[1-2?]: 1
BusyBox installation prefix (PREFIX) []
*
* Busybox Library Tuning
*
MD5: Trade Bytes for Speed (CONFIG_MD5_SIZE_VS_SPEED) [2] (NEW)

Uncompress support (CONFIG_FEATURE_GUNZIP_UNCOMPRESS) [N/y/?] n
gzip (CONFIG_GZIP) [Y/n/?] y
rpm2cpio (CONFIG_RPM2CPIO) [N/y/?] n
rpm (CONFIG_RPM) [N/y/?] n
tar (CONFIG_TAR) [Y/n/?] y
Enable archive creation (CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE) [Y/n/?] y
Enable -j option to handle .tar.bz2 files (CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_BZIP2) [N/y/?] n
Enable -a option to handle .tar.lzma files (CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_LZMA) [N/y/?] (NEW)

uncompress (CONFIG_UNCOMPRESS) [N/y/?] n
unlzma (CONFIG_UNLZMA) [N/y/?] (NEW)

Use a default blocksize of 1024 bytes (1K) (CONFIG_FEATURE_DU_DEFALT_BLOCKSIZE_1K) [Y/n/?] y
echo (basic SuSv3 version taking no options) (CONFIG_ECHO) [Y/n/?] y
Enable echo options (-n and -e) (CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_ECHO) [Y/n/?] y
env (CONFIG_ENV) [Y/n/?] y
expr (CONFIG_EXPR) [Y/n/?] y
Extend Posix numbers support to 64 bit (CONFIG_EXPR_MATH_SUPPORT_64) [N/y/?] (NEW)

Enable modified time matching (-min) option (CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_MMIN) [Y/n/?] (NEW)

rdate (CONFIG_RDATE) [Y/n/?] y
readprofile (CONFIG_READPROFILE) [N/y/?] n
setarch (CONFIG_SETARCH) [N/y/?] (NEW)

umount -a option (CONFIG_FEATURE_UMOUNT_ALL) [N/y/?] (NEW)

i have no idea why these aare coming up or what the responses should be , i can succsessfully make an image but when it is flashed to my box it hangs on loading kernal

any help would be appreciated

thanks dunryc

[Barf]

update busybox.config.m4 from CVS.

[dunryc]

thanks for the advice i did as you said and re tried this afternoon and every thing went great , i was able to flash an image and load it
thanks duunryc