[OE-core] SDK Issues

[Jack Mitchell]

On 17/02/14 10:49, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 10:44 +0000, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>> I recently did a new build of my images and SDKs under master
>> (b188bda18690dc1af) refreshing a 3 month old build. Now everything
>> builds fine, but when trying to build our in house software with the
>> SDK, the new SDK falls over citing issues failing to link with libdl. If
>> I think switch back to using the old SDK, everything builds without
>> issue. Can anybody think of anything which might have altered the SDK in
>> the past few months in order to cause this to break? I have done a quick
>> directory diff of the 2 SDKs and nothing radically different. GCC 4.81
>> -> 4.82 and autotools 1.13  -> 1.14 are probably the big changes. From
>> what I can see the command to build the application is linking with all
>> the correct libraries and as it builds with previous versions I would be
>> surprised if this was wrong. It also seems to be struggling with the
>> -lcrypto libraries, but it hits the libdl issue first so it may just be
>> a domino effect, or there could be a significant issue with the SDK
>> generation.
>>
>> i586-oe-linux-gcc -m32 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse
>> --sysroot=/scratch/jmitchell/oecore-sdk/1/sysroots/core2-32-oe-linux -I.
>> -I/scratch/jmitchell/code.git/net-snmp/../include -Wall -pipe  -rdynamic
>> -g -Wall -Wextra -Wl,--build-id -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
>> -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wno-char-subscripts -Dlinux -o .libs/snmpd
>> snmpd.o -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed -rdynamic -rdynamic
>>  ./.libs/libucdagent.so ./.libs/libucdmibs.so -lwrap
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so -lcrypto -ldl -lelf -ldl  -Wl,--rpath
>> -Wl,/scratch/jmitchell/code.git/net-snmp/../net-snmp/usr/lib
>> ./.libs/libucdmibs.so: undefined reference to `dlopen'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `EVP_md5'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `EVP_sha1'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `RAND_bytes'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `EVP_DigestInit'
>> ./.libs/libucdmibs.so: undefined reference to `dlclose'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `DES_ncbc_encrypt'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `DES_cbc_encrypt'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `EVP_DigestUpdate'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `HMAC'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `DES_key_sched'
>> ./.libs/libucdmibs.so: undefined reference to `dlerror'
>> ./.libs/libucdmibs.so: undefined reference to `dlsym'
>> ../snmplib/.libs/libsnmp.so: undefined reference to `EVP_DigestFinal'
>>
>> Any light shed would be much appreciated!
> Binutils changed and we did see some occasional link issues with that.
> You could try the command without -Wl,--as-needed. If that helps, you
> have a library ordering issue which the new stricter binutils picked up.
>
> I'm just guessing mind but its worth a try...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>

Good shout, that seems to allow it to build; I didn't even realise
ordering of linker libs could effect the build. I guess I have some
reading to go do!

Cheers RP.

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  Jack Mitchell (jack at embed.me.uk)
  Embedded Systems Engineer
  Cambridgeshire, UK
  http://www.embed.me.uk
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