[OE-core] Fwd: Recipe [patch] modification to generate a static library instead of shared library

[Matthew McClintock]

Do you have the staticdev packages in your TMPDIR? E.g.

tmp/work/cortexa15t2hf-neon-rdk-linux-gnueabi/libxml2/2.9.4-r0/deploy-ipks/cortexa15t2hf-neon/libxml2-staticdev_2.9.4-r0_cortexa15t2hf-neon.ipk

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On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Ravi chandra reddy <vlsireddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>     Let me thank you guys for quick reply.
> let me put my  email in correct steps
>
> 1. below local/local.conf changes makes bitbake fail.
>
>                             IMAGE_INSTALL_append = "lib32-glibc lib32-libgcc
> lib32-libstdc++ libedit libxml2-staticdev"
>
> error:=============
> ================================== i get the following
> errors==================================
> ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Function failed: do_rootfs
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /home/polar/zcu_yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/zcu102_zynqmp-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.17721
> ERROR: Task 9
> (/home/polar/zcu_yocto/poky/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb,
> do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 2144 tasks of which 2143 didn't need to be
> rerun and 1 failed.
> ===================================
>
> 2.  without staticdev changes [in local/local.conf], it
> [bitbake-core-image-minimal] goes through and it builds [but there is only
> .so [dynamic library] generated]
>
> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = "lib32-glibc lib32-libgcc lib32-libstdc++ libedit
> libxml2"
>
>
> 3. i ran the search and found that all "no-static" lines are commented
>
> bitbake -e | grep static-libs
>
>
> and all the "no-static-libs.inc" are commented [#]
>
> Thanks
> RC
>
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Ravi chandra reddy <vlsireddy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>        in local/local.conf it [bitbake core-image-minimal] fails, if i use
>> libxml2-staticdev
>>
>>   # Specify the 32-bit libraries to be added to all images
>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = "lib32-glibc lib32-libgcc lib32-libstdc++ libedit
>> libxml2-staticdev"
>>
>> ================================== i get the following
>> errors==================================
>> ERROR: core-image-minimal-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Function failed: do_rootfs
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>> /home/polar/zcu_yocto/poky/build/tmp/work/zcu102_zynqmp-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.17721
>> ERROR: Task 9
>> (/home/polar/zcu_yocto/poky/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb,
>> do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'
>> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 2144 tasks of which 2143 didn't need to be
>> rerun and 1 failed.
>> ===================================
>>
>> if i use as below, there is no issue. however there is no .so
>>
>> # Specify the 32-bit libraries to be added to all images
>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append = "lib32-glibc lib32-libgcc lib32-libstdc++ libedit
>> libxml2"
>>
>> i ran
>>
>> bitbake -e | grep static-libs
>>
>> and all the "no-static-libs.inc" are commented [#]
>>
>> Thanks
>> RC
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Richard Purdie
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 10:33 -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Ravi chandra reddy <vlsireddy at gmail.
>>> > com> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Hi All,
>>> > >           I am using meta-oe to generate libxml2 library using
>>> > > AARCH64
>>> > > compiler. However it generates shared object [.so] library.
>>> > >
>>> > > is there any setting in recipe to modify this, to generate static
>>> > > library
>>> > > [instead of shared library]
>>> > >
>>> > > if so, please point me to the recipe/file to change.
>>> > >
>>> > > if not, i will try to add it as patch, plz point me to appropriate
>>> > > files to
>>> > > change
>>> > Is the ${PN}-staticdev package getting generated for you?
>>>
>>> Its possible you have conf/distro/include/no-static-libs.inc included
>>> in your build (bitbake -e would tell you).
>>>
>>> If so, you could remove that include or set:
>>>
>>> DISABLE_STATIC = ""
>>>
>>> as it would currently be set to this if that include file is included:
>>>
>>> DISABLE_STATIC = " --disable-static"
>>>
>>> We tend not to build static libraries as they're a waste of space/time
>>> on the most part.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Richard
>>
>>
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