[WAAAAAY OT] can't build openembedded/angstrom on f11

[Robert L Cochran]

Maybe I'll even buy a Beagleboard. This took several hours to do, all 
day on my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop in fact, but it seems to have worked.

Results under Fedora 11, meaning this version exactly

[rlc at deafeng3 openembedded]$ uname -a
Linux deafeng3.signtype.info 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 27 
17:27:08 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[rlc at deafeng3 openembedded]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)


[From `bitbake base-image`:]

NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 2946 tasks of which 0 didn't need to be 
rerun and 0 failed.
NOTE: build 200905310908: completed
[rlc at deafeng3 openembedded]$ bitbake console-image
NOTE: Handling BitBake files: - (6650/6650) [100 %]
NOTE: Parsing finished. 6368 cached, 0 parsed, 282 skipped, 0 masked.
NOTE: Cache is clean, not saving.
NOTE: build 200905311345: started
.....
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 2928 tasks of which 2890 didn't need to 
be rerun and 0 failed.
NOTE: build 200905311345: completed

[rlc at deafeng3 openembedded]$ bitbake x11-image
NOTE: Handling BitBake files: - (6650/6650) [100 %]
NOTE: Parsing finished. 6368 cached, 0 parsed, 282 skipped, 0 masked.
NOTE: Cache is clean, not saving.
NOTE: build 200905311351: started

OE Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION = "1.8.12"
METADATA_BRANCH = "stable/2009"
METADATA_REVISION = "901e7c5b47b9f3695cef841e6c8663d37c932fec"
TARGET_ARCH = "arm"
TARGET_OS = "linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE = "beagleboard"
DISTRO = "angstrom"
DISTRO_VERSION = "2009.X-test-20090531"
TARGET_FPU = "hard"

NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
NOTE: preferred version git of u-boot not available (for item u-boot)
NOTE: preferred version git of u-boot not available (for item u-boot)
....
....
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 6096 tasks of which 2908 didn't need to 
be rerun and 0 failed.
NOTE: build 200905311351: completed




On 05/31/2009 06:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    this is massively off-topic but i'm hoping someone's bored enough to
> take a look.  i have a beagleboard:
>
>    http://beagleboard.org
>
> and am trying to build the angstrom OS for it.  the build (using the
> openembedded (OE) build utility) should be fairly straightforward but
> trying this under my current 64-bit install of f11 preview fails each
> time thusly:
>
> ... snip ...
>
> ccache gcc
> -isystem/home/rpjday/oe/angstrom-dev/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/include
> -O2 -Wunused -Wall -static
> -L/home/rpjday/oe/angstrom-dev/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib
> -Wl,-rpath-link,/home/rpjday/oe/angstrom-dev/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib
> -Wl,-rpath,/home/rpjday/oe/angstrom-dev/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib
> -Wl,-O1 -o insmod.static insmod.o
> mv -f .deps/tables.Tpo .deps/tables.Po
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [insmod.static] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> modinfo.c: In function 'main':
> modinfo.c:338: warning: 'infosize' may be used uninitialized in this
> function
> mv -f .deps/modinfo.Tpo .deps/modinfo.Po
> make: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> FATAL: oe_runmake failed
>
>    i've documented, step by step, what i did here:
>
> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Angstrom#Building_Angstrom_from_scratch_with_OpenEmbedded
>
> and it's frustrating since others have reported normal success (some
> running under fedora 8).  i have no idea why i keep getting this error
> -- maybe it's related to running 64-bit, i don't know.  others are
> building just fine under other distros as well, so i'm baffled.
>
>    thoughts?  at this point, i'm really open to suggestions.  if you've
> never played with openembedded, here's your chance.  :-)
>
> rday
> --
>
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