mkfs.jffs2.c not compiling for arm

[Lennert Buytenhek]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 05:34:23PM +0200, Saravanan Chanemouganandam wrote:

> I am a newbie to use MTD tools. I have downloaded the latest version of the 
> mtd tools and when I try to cross compile mtd-utils-1.0.0 for the Xscale 
> platform, I am getting the following make error. 
> 
> sara:/home/sara/mtd-utils-1.0.0#make 
> CROSS=/scratchbox/compilers/arm-gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/bin/arm-linux-
> ....
> /scratchbox/compilers/arm-gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/bin/arm-linux-gcc -I./include 
> -O2 -Wall -g -c -o mkfs.jffs2.o mkfs.jffs2.c -g -Wp,-MD,.mkfs.jffs2.c.dep
> mkfs.jffs2.c:68:18: zlib.h : No such file or directory
> make: *** [mkfs.jffs2.o] Error 1
> rm ftl_check.o mkfs.jffs.o flash_erase.o ftl_format.o nanddump.o 
> doc_loadbios.o
> 
> The host development machine has already installed with supporting Zlib 
> libraries but still it couldn't find the file. 

Considering that you are cross-compiling, what you need is not a host
version (e.g. i386 version) of zlib, but a target version (i.e. arm
version) of zlib.