[oe] Compiling glibc-2.6.1 failed

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Guo Hongruan <camelguo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>    When compiling glibc,  I meet the following error information. You can
> reproduce it as the following:
> DISTRO = "minimal"
> MACHINE = "qemux86"
> bitbake helloworld-image
>
>   By the way, when using eglibc, it works OK.  Anyone can give me some
> hints?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> | checking whether
> /media/work-disk/workdir/oe-mini-glibc-bug/cross/i686/lib/gcc/i686-oe-linux/4.4.2/../../../../i686-oe-linux/bin/ld
> is GNU ld... yes
> | checking for
> /media/work-disk/workdir/oe-mini-glibc-bug/cross/i686/lib/gcc/i686-oe-linux/4.4.2/../../../../i686-oe-linux/bin/as...
> /media/work-disk/workdir/oe-mini-glibc-bug/cross/i686/lib/gcc/i686-oe-linux/4.4.2/../../../../i686-oe-linux/bin/as
> | checking version of
> /media/work-disk/workdir/oe-mini-glibc-bug/cross/i686/lib/gcc/i686-oe-linux/4.4.2/../../../../i686-oe-linux/bin/as...
> 2.20, bad
> | checking for
> /media/work-disk/workdir/oe-mini-glibc-bug/cross/i686/lib/gcc/i686-oe-linux/4.4.2/../../../../i686-oe-linux/bin/ld...
> /media/work-disk/workdir/oe-mini-glibc-bug/cross/i686/lib/gcc/i686-oe-linux/4.4.2/../../../../i686-oe-linux/bin/ld
> | checking version of
> /media/work-disk/workdir/oe-mini-glibc-bug/cross/i686/lib/gcc/i686-oe-linux/4.4.2/../../../../i686-oe-linux/bin/ld...
> 2.20, bad

here lies the problem. I think the sed expression is not
able to comprehend that 2.20 version of ld is newer

you need to backport glibc-2.9/glibc-2.9-enable-binutils-2.2.patch

to 2.6.1

Thx

-Khem



> | checking for pwd...
> /media/work-disk/workdir/oe-mini-glibc-bug/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/pwd
> | checking for i686-oe-linux-gcc... (cached) ccache i686-oe-linux-gcc
> -march=pentiumpro
> | checking version of ccache i686-oe-linux-gcc -march=pentiumpro... 4.4.2,
> ok
> | checking for gnumake... make
> | checking version of make... 3.81, ok
> | checking for gnumsgfmt... no
> | checking for gmsgfmt... no
> | checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
> | checking version of msgfmt... 0.17, ok
> | checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
> | checking version of makeinfo... 4.11, ok
> | checking for sed... sed
> | checking version of sed... 4.1.5, ok
> | checking for autoconf... autoconf
> | checking whether autoconf works... yes
> | configure: error:
> | *** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld
> | *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
> | FATAL: oe_runconf failed
>
>
>
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