[oe] LPC3250, helloworld-image, configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs

[Dmitry Vinokurov]

Dmitry Vinokurov wrote:
> Khem Raj wrote:
>> On (23/08/09 19:25), Dmitry Vinokurov wrote:
>>  
>>> Khem Raj wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On (23/08/09 10:17), Dmitry Vinokurov wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>>>>> ERROR: 
>>>>>>>> '/home/raydan/work/oe/openembedded/recipes/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-cross_3.2.2.bb' 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> failed
>>>>>>>> --------
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I.e. bitbake again confused cross-gcc and x86-gcc. Updated my OE
>>>>>>>> with git pull, removed tmp/ and made rebuild -- same result.
>>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>> Looks like error is in wrong ./configure parameter:
>>>>>>> --host=i686-linux instead of --host=arm-oe-linux-gnueabi .
>>>>>>> Now I'm trying to find, why --host was set to i686 and where it can
>>>>>>> be changed.
>>>>>>>             
>>>>>> its a cross package so host being i686-linux (I suppose you are 
>>>>>> building
>>>>>> on i686 box) is ok. Look into the config.log error message should 
>>>>>> be in
>>>>>> there
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Khem
>>>>>>           
>>>>> Hm, "configure --help" says "--host=HOST cross-compile to build
>>>>> programs to run on HOST [BUILD]" and as I understand, I will run
>>>>> programs on ARM, so it should be 'arm-oe-linux-gnueabi'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, even if host should be x86, instead of i686-linux-gcc it
>>>>> finds arm-vfp-linux-gcc and fails.
>>>>>         
>>>> dont confuse pure cross with canadian cross. You are doing a normal
>>>> cross build here which means build machine is same as host machine.
>>>>
>>>> Your problem is probably because you are overriding CC and friends
>>>> which could be confusing (already confused) configure even more.
>>>>
>>>> Try setting CC_FOR_BUILD=<your native compiler on the build machine>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> -Khem
>>>>       
>>> Thank you for your help. I'm newbie in OE and crosscompiling at all
>>> and may confuse some things.
>>>
>>> Just now I've tried to build some not so simple as helloworld but
>>> not so complicated as kernel -- bc calculator. And I'd like to say
>>> that during configure stage it sets:
>>> --build=i686-linux --host=arm-oe-linux-gnueabi 
>>> --target=arm-oe-linux-gnueabi
>>>
>>> Builded bc works fine on my board and this is normal, not canadian,
>>> cross build.
>>>     
>>
>> its a target package being built on build machine. Your build was 
>> failing to compile a package which
>> will run on your host (similar to cross compilers) they are not same
>> cases. module-init-tools would be analogically similar to bc but not
>> module-init-tools-cross which is the package you reported failing.
>>   
> Yes, you're right. Recently read documentation more attentively 
> (http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#recipes_variables) 
> and understood that I was wrong.
> Now appearing errors are more familiar to me and I hope soon image for 
> LPC3250 will be built successfully and I'll report about it.
Successfully builded kernel for LPC3250, it works on the board. But 
trouble with module-init-tools (configure try to use CC (set to arm 
compiler) as x86 compiler and fails due to "cannot run C compiled 
programs") still remains -- I temporarily solved it by explicitly 
setting CC=gcc in module-init-tools-cross_3.2.2.bb, though I don't think 
that it is good solution.

Maybe somebody more experienced could advise, how this trouble can be 
solved in the right way? I'm ready to give any needed logs.