Problems making jffs2 utils

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Wed Apr 9 09:21:22 EDT 2003


On Wed, 9 April 2003 09:09:54 -0400, John Burch wrote:
> 
> 1.  Even to build 'erase' only, one still needs zlib?

No, that shouldn't be the case.

> 2.  I can't seem to track down the 'common zlib patch' you refer to.  Is
> this a special patch in support of mtd, or a general patch for zlib
> (such that if I get the latest zlib I wouldn't need the patch)?

Dammit! I was stupid, confused or worse and didn't read the work
"utils" in your mail. Others got it right, so I hoped this would go
unnoticed. You didn't have to rub it in.

Forget the common zlib, you only need it for the kernel.

> 3.  Is the patch particular to a specific version of zlib?
> 4.  Can my target zlib version differ from the host zlib version without
> causing problems?

see above. Sorry about that.

Jörn

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