[OE-core] lots of WARNING: QA Issue: Bit size did not match (32 to 0) warnings, what do they mean?

[Koen Kooi]

I can confirm your patches fixes it, thanks!

Op 3 mrt 2011, om 17:24 heeft Mark Hatle het volgende geschreven:

> I found the issue.  Somewhere in a code merge in lib/oe/qa.py "self.bits = 32"
> became "self.bits == 32"
> 
> lines 43 and 45 are incorrect.  I'll submit a patch shortly to resolve this.
> 
> --Mark
> 
>> On 3/3/11 9:45 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I started noticing a lot of warnings like this:
>>>> 
>>>> WARNING: QA Issue: Bit size did not match (32 to 0) on /work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/udev-165-r2/packages-split/udev/sbin/udevd
>> If the file is an ELF file, there are specific checks that are performed,
>> machine type, os type.. and bit size.  (I suspect the QA message for all of them
>> probably need to be improved.)
>> 
>> What I find interesting is it came back as "0".  0 indicates that the elf
>> comparison loader was never run.. 0 is "unknown".  (32 and 64 are obvious values...)
>> 
>> The code that determines the size is in meta/lib/oe/qa.py.  The normal use of
>> the code is from the meta/classes/insane.bbclass function.  The fact the
>> comparison returned a 0 indicates that the qa.py functions did not run.  This
>> could be a bug in meta/lib/oe/qa.py, or it could be that the routine call in
>> package_qa_walk (in insane.bbclass) failed for some reason and something went
>> wrong with the exception handler?
>> 
>>>> What do they mean and how can I (help to) fix them?
>> First thing to do is check the binary that is being referenced and verify that
>> it is infact a valid ARM EABI binary.  Assuming it is file, we need to track
>> down the code likely starting in qa.py and figure out why it didn't determine
>> the bit size.
>> 
>> --Mark
>> 
>>>> regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Koen
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