[OE-core] Berkeley DB fails to build

[Philip Balister]

On 01/24/2014 07:08 AM, Iorga, Cristian wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> What is your OS?
> I am unable to reproduce it on my machine following your testcase: Ubuntu 13.10 x86 64bits.
> I tried with qemux86 and qemux86-64 machines.
> But then again, on my machine there is no /usr/lib/libstdc++.so file.
> I assume that you have tried with that touch, see how system behaves and if it not the case of a host contamination.

My Fedora 19 box has /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 and .so.6.0.19 and the
recipe works for me.

I guess we need to look at sed'ing the libtool script harder. The
problem is the db package doesn't include enough stuff to do the usual
rebuild of configure etc.

Philip

> /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 Robert Yang
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:19 PM
> To: Paul Barker; Philip Balister
> Cc: openembedded-core
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] Berkeley DB fails to build
> 
> 
> Seems that it is caused by the libtool, but I'm not very sure, we can reproduce it by:
> 
> $ sudo touch /usr/lib/libstdc++.so
> $ bitbake db
> 
> // Robert
> 
> On 01/24/2014 03:01 AM, Paul Barker wrote:
>> 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.
>>
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