[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] bc: upgrade 1.06 to 1.07.1
Jose Lamego
jose.a.lamego at linux.intel.com
Fri May 19 19:17:53 UTC 2017
On 05/19/2017 10:25 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 18 May 2017 at 23:28, Jose Lamego <jose.a.lamego at linux.intel.com
> <mailto:jose.a.lamego at linux.intel.com>> wrote:
>
> bc recipe must be upgraded to latest version in upstream.
>
> bc license changed from "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1" to "GPLv3+ & LGPLv3"
> The new version exhibits a Parallel Make Race that required
> unsetting PARALLEL_MAKE variable.
> This change was tested with core-image-minimal in qemux86.
>
>
> It would be appreciated if you could spend a few minutes looking at what
> the build race is and pushing a fix upstream. Or at least include a
> comment showing the failure.
>
> I chased the sed thing as previous releases didn't need it: my build
> machine doesn't even have ed installed so HOSTTOOLS won't help. This
> appears to be a regression as 1.06 shipped the file that needs ed to
> build. The makefile now always builds a binary to generate a file that
> it then runs through ed, and it doesn't build this tool correctly in a
> cross environment either:
>
> | /bin/bash: ./fbc: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
>
> (it's trying to run an arm binary on x86)
>
> I'd suggest that we approach the upstream maintainer and discuss:
> 1) should the tarballs ship libmath.h instead of requiring it to be
> generated
> 2) using CC_FOR_BUILD etc from autoconf-archive to build fbc with the
> host compiler in cross-compile environments
> 3) can sed be used instead of ed to reduce the host requirements
>
> Ross
Agree. I will contact the bc maintainer and work on the build race. I'll
get back to you with the findings. Thanks for the suggestions!
--
Jose Lamego | OTC Embedded Platforms & Tools | GDC
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