[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] systemd: avoid boot failures for mips64

[ChenQi]

On 10/17/2016 07:03 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:
>> If we start a systemd based qemumips64 target with 'pam' enabled in
>> DISTRO_FEATURES, we could not login in successfully. After you provide
>> username and password to the login prompt, the login prompt just comes up
>> again. Besides, there are other boot failures.
>>
>> Append '-O0' flag for mips64 target as a workaround to this problem.
>>
>> [YOCTO #10250]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc
>> index f800f42..db588e7 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc
>> @@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ PV = "230+git${SRCPV}"
>>   S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
>>
>>   LDFLAGS_append_libc-uclibc = " -lrt -lssp_nonshared -lssp "
>> +CFLAGS_append_mips64 = " -O0"
> can you instead explore a bit more e.g. disabling lto etc.
> CFLAGS_append_mips64 = " -fno-lto"
>
> and also consider little endian
>

Hi Khem,

I thought of adding '-O0' to CFLAGS because when I was debugging this 
problem, I found that several 'printf' statements would make errors 
disappear. I'm not familiar with these options. I just gave a test for 
'-fno-lto', and it caused the following error.

ERROR: systemd-1_230+gitAUTOINC+3a74d4fc90-r0 do_package: debugedit 
failed with exit code 1 (cmd was 
'/buildarea2/chenqi/poky/build-systemd/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/rpm/bin/debugedit' 
-i -l 
'/buildarea2/chenqi/poky/build-systemd/tmp/work/mips64-poky-linux/systemd/1_230+gitAUTOINC+3a74d4fc90-r0/debugsources.list' 
'/buildarea2/chenqi/poky/build-systemd/tmp/work/mips64-poky-linux/systemd/1_230+gitAUTOINC+3a74d4fc90-r0/package/usr/lib/systemd/ptest/tests/test-libsystemd-sym.o'):
/buildarea2/chenqi/poky/build-systemd/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/rpm/bin/debugedit: 
/buildarea2/chenqi/poky/build-systemd/tmp/work/mips64-poky-linux/systemd/1_230+gitAUTOINC+3a74d4fc90-r0/package/usr/lib/systemd/ptest/tests/test-libsystemd-sym.o: 
Unhandled relocation 2 in .debug_info section
ERROR: systemd-1_230+gitAUTOINC+3a74d4fc90-r0 do_package: Function 
failed: split_and_strip_files
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: 
/buildarea2/chenqi/poky/build-systemd/tmp/work/mips64-poky-linux/systemd/1_230+gitAUTOINC+3a74d4fc90-r0/temp/log.do_package.8462
ERROR: Task 
(/buildarea2/chenqi/poky/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_230.bb:do_package) 
failed with exit code '1'

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

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