On Thu, Apr 08 at 09:39, Charles Manning wrote:
> During the initrd building, the building of makedev failed due to the compiler 
> being -Werror and system() return value being ignored. I got past that with 
> the following patch. I'm sure this should rather be fixed elsewhere.

A simpler patch would be to replace system() by calling sync() direct.

$ diff -u makedevs.c~ makedevs.c
--- makedevs.c~	2010-04-08 08:55:31.000000000 +1200
+++ makedevs.c	2010-04-08 08:56:56.608535407 +1200
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@
 	}
 	fclose(table);
 
-	system("/bin/sync");
+	sync();
 
 	return 0;
 }


As for the build system in general I can't help as we run our own custom
build system.  I do have a last version from CVS YAFFS2 with a 2.6.33
kernel running on a Balloon2 board so I can confirm it can be done.

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        Bob Dunlop
        Guralp Systems Limited
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