[OE-core] Berkeley DB fails to build

[Iorga, Cristian]

Hi Carlos, Paul,

If the issue is still reproducible, can you please open an issue on the bugtracker?
And add also the info that you have found?
That is, if you didn't already opened a bug.

Thanks,
Cristian Iorga
YP
Intel

-----Original Message-----
From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Paul Barker
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:01 PM
To: Philip Balister
Cc: openembedded-core
Subject: Re: [OE-core] Berkeley DB fails to build

On 23 January 2014 17:54, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> On 01/23/2014 06:51 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed that since the C++ bindings for the berkeley DB were 
>> included in commit 23f29027db73d5759889b48fabdea7f6173217a7 , I 
>> cannot build db anymore.
>> The error is:
>>
>>     /usr/lib/libstdc++.so: file not recognized: File format not 
>> recognized
>>
>> this is the offending part in the log.do_compile file:
>
> What distro is your build machine running? I've this from people using 
> Arch Linux.
>

I've tracked this down to libtool replacing '-lstdc++' with an explicit reference to '/usr/lib/libstdc++.so' before it runs ld. So it's libtool not ld at fault here. I did look at the recipe for Berkeley db and spotted that it overrides do_configure, allowing the shipped copies of libtool and related files to be used rather than running the autoreconf stuff that replaces them. That's my understanding at least.

At that point I ran away and reverted the commit in question locally as libtool terrifies me and I don't need the c++ bindings myself!

Sorry I can't be more help but I hope that points someone in the right direction.

--
Paul Barker

Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
http://www.paulbarker.me.uk
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