[ELDK] arm-linux-gcc command not found

[Peter Stefanos]

Hi Jerry,

Thank you for pointing this out. I did get it to work after reading some 
more Linux documentation and I think I understand now. As you said, the 
answer is obvious once you know...

Kind Regards,
Peter.

Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> Peter Stefanos wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I must first stress that I am new to Linux.
>> So far I have successfully compiled, loaded and run ucLinux on an
>> embedded artists LPC2468 board, however, I have had little success in
>> compiling the u-boot-1.1.6 source on Debian linux. I believe I have
>> installed the ELDK correctly and added the appropriate paths to the
>> environment. When I type the compiler name I get:
>
> Version 1.1.6 is very old, we strongly recommend upgrading to the 
> tip-o-tree (should not be material to this discussion).
>
>> peter at Captain:~$ arm-linux-gcc -v
>
> [snip]
>
>> gcc version 4.0.0 (DENX ELDK 4.0 4.0.0)
>>
>> So it can find the gcc compiler. Then I type and get:
>
> Yes, but as the user *"peter"*, apparently it is in your login path.
>
> [snip]
>
>> peter at Captain:/cadet/u-boot-1.1.6$ sudo make
>
> Note that you now switch to using "sudo", which runs "make" as the 
> user "root", not as "peter".  Apparently arm-linux-gcc is not in the 
> path of "root" (no big surprise).
>
> The question is, why are you trying to build u-boot as root?  You 
> don't need root privileges to build u-boot.  If you do, you probably 
> have file ownership/permissions problems that you should fix.
>
> [snip]
>
>> I don't fully understand what its trying to tell me, but it seems that
>> it can't find the arm-linux-gcc compiler and I don't understand why
>> since I can type it in the command line and it appears to find it.
>
> root's $PATH != peter's $PATH
>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated... The answer is probably
>> obvious... except its not obvious to me!
>
> The answer is always obvious, once you figure it out. ;-)
>
>> Peter
>
> Best regards,
> gvb
>